THE HISTORY OF ROME HANKS Joseph Stanley Pennell Armed Services Edition S-36

Description: THIS big strange book is the record of young Lee Harrington's ancestors — chief among them his heroic great-grandfather Rome Hanks — as recreated by Lee from what he saw and was told. The characters are men and women of both North and South who lived and fought through the Civil War, and then struggled for a livelihood in the impoverished South or the little towns of the West. All the memories of the Civil War and of the years afterward up to Lee's birth are gathered largely from a loyal friend and admirer of Rome Hanks, Thomas Wagnal, formerly surgeon in the 117th Iowa, and from others who fought. These memories are sifted through Lee's mind and given a new quality by it, set down as they come, without chronology. They are chiefly about the heroic Romulus Hanks, Captain in the 117th, cheated of advancement by the politician, Clint Belton. All the episodes recounted — such as the charge at Gettysburg — are suffused with that indefinable sadness, because they happened long ago and are forever gone. This special edition of THE HISTORY OF ROME HANKS by Joseph Stanley Pennell has been made available to the Armed Forces of the United States through an arrangement with the original publisher, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. Editions for the Armed Services, Inc., a non-profit organization established by the Council on Books in Wartime

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