The Campfire Boys

About this book

Philip Lee Williamss new Civil War novel The Campfire Boys tells a story thats never really been told in fiction beforeof camp entertainers in the Civil War. A book filled with high spirits and hilarity it is also a book of extremely accurate history telling the story of the Eastern Theater of the war and in particular a Georgia unit called Cobbs Legion Infantry. The novel is the story of the three Blackshear brothersJack Michael and Henryand how they turned a boyhood love of performing in their Georgia hometown of Branton into a one of the most famous campfire acts of the Civil War. Much more though its a book of war and its consequences and how we try to turn away from it with entertainment. In the end the book is poignant and moving hilarious and epic. It is the story of why the men who fought for both sides tried to keep their humanity alive in the midst of the most vile inhumanity imaginable.