Orphan Hero

A Novel of the Civil War

Fiction & Literature, Military, Coming of Age, Action Suspense
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Author: John Babb ISBN: 9781631580598
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Publication: August 4, 2015
Imprint: Yucca Publishing Language: English
Author: John Babb
ISBN: 9781631580598
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Publication: August 4, 2015
Imprint: Yucca Publishing
Language: English

An epic tale of tragedy and adventure based on the experiences of the author’s great-grandfather as he made his way across America during the Civil War.

Told by his stepmother that he alone had been responsible for the death of his mother, abandoned by his father’s earlier departure for Gold Rush California, and threatened with being locked in a cage with his psychotic step-uncle, eight-year-old Benjamin Franklin “B.F.” Windes decides to abandon home and trail his father’s westward path. Thus begins months of constant struggle with disease, severe weather, hardship, Indian attack, and death on his lone journey across much of what is now the United States.

B.F. spends the next eleven years in gold rush towns in California—first as a barber, then as a physician’s assistant—before departing for the Caribbean at age nineteen, where he becomes a blockade-runner during the American Civil War. At war’s end, he discovers that the men he had been dealing with were nothing more than common murderers and thieves—Bushwhackers.

He travels to the Missouri Ozarks where he meets the girl of his dreams. But their romance is threatened when he finds himself battling a man from his past in order to safeguard his family and his future.

Orphan Hero, based on the life of former US Assistant Surgeon General John Babb’s great-grandfather in the mid-nineteenth century, is a story of courage and perseverance in the face of incredible hardship.

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An epic tale of tragedy and adventure based on the experiences of the author’s great-grandfather as he made his way across America during the Civil War.

Told by his stepmother that he alone had been responsible for the death of his mother, abandoned by his father’s earlier departure for Gold Rush California, and threatened with being locked in a cage with his psychotic step-uncle, eight-year-old Benjamin Franklin “B.F.” Windes decides to abandon home and trail his father’s westward path. Thus begins months of constant struggle with disease, severe weather, hardship, Indian attack, and death on his lone journey across much of what is now the United States.

B.F. spends the next eleven years in gold rush towns in California—first as a barber, then as a physician’s assistant—before departing for the Caribbean at age nineteen, where he becomes a blockade-runner during the American Civil War. At war’s end, he discovers that the men he had been dealing with were nothing more than common murderers and thieves—Bushwhackers.

He travels to the Missouri Ozarks where he meets the girl of his dreams. But their romance is threatened when he finds himself battling a man from his past in order to safeguard his family and his future.

Orphan Hero, based on the life of former US Assistant Surgeon General John Babb’s great-grandfather in the mid-nineteenth century, is a story of courage and perseverance in the face of incredible hardship.

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