Failed Ambition: The Civil War Journals & Letters Of Cavalryman Homer Harris Jewett

Homer's story is an episode in life that echoes with meaning for today. The account begins with the greatest of aspirations at Pella Iowa in 1861. It unfolds through rural Iowa and Illinois, continues in war torn Missouri and Arkansas and concludes mysteriously at post-bellum Monroe Louisiana in 1866. (This book was revised in 2008.)