There Let Me Live and Die

There Let Me Live and DieBorn in the woods of the North Florida frontier, young Richard Alexander dreams of joining a steamboat on the Suwannee River. His dreams and innocence are shattered as the War Between the States envelopes the South. Fighting for freedom and his home, Richard comes of age before his time as his romantic notions of war are replaced by death, deprivation, and carnage. Returning to his childhood home a different person, he deals with the economic and

Born in the woods of the North Florida frontier, young Richard Alexander dreams of joining a steamboat on the Suwannee River. His dreams and innocence are shattered as the War Between the States envelopes the South. Fighting for freedom and his home, Richard comes of age before his time as his romantic notions of war are replaced by death, deprivation, and carnage. Returning to his childhood home a different person, he deals with the economic and political changes wrought on the South by Reconstruction. Earning a living in carpentry, steamboating, phosphate, and railroads, Richard's journey to prove himself worthy to the people and world around him brings him into contact with a wide variety of historical characters. His family life marred by war and death,Richard matures and accepts what life has to deal him while facing war, the Ku Klux Klan, race relations, financial hardships, and technological advances only dreamed of in his youth.