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June 26, 2008 St. Louis and the Civil War
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April 8th, 2008 Author Comes to Springfield to Discuss Civil War Book:
Author Gari Carter is coming to Springfield to promote her new book about Missouri and the Civil War. KSMU’s Kristian Kriner reports.
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Troubled State: Civil War Journals of Franklin Archibald Dick is a book written by Author Gari Carter based on her great-great grandfather’s journals.
Troubled State is an inside look at the story of St. Louis’ divided and violent history during the Civil War.
Carter’s great-great grandfather came to St. Louis to practice law in 1842 until the Civil War interfered and he was asked to be Assistant Adjutant General to Captain Nathaniel Lyon.
Carter says Franklin Dick wrote not only about what life was like during war time, but how the war was affecting St. Louis and Missouri.
“He talks a lot about politics, about investments, about the price of food, about a lot of different famous people because he was either related to or he knew all of the famous people involved in the war and around in that time, so his journals are different from reading a history book. This is a first hand account of what it was like to live during these troubled times,” Carter said.
She says Franklin Dick described the events leading up to the violent Camp Jackson incident in St. Louis, secret Unionist meetings held in his office and accounts from Abraham Lincoln.
Carter says Troubled State can give people different perspectives on war and living during a war.
“I think it gives us a good perspective on how we live today because we’re still involved thinking about wars. We’re all concerned about the war in Iraq. It’s not happening right on our soil the way the Civil War did, but he talks a lot about what it’s like to live in troubled times and I think we all can take something from that,” Carter said.
Carter says she spent 10 years writing Troubled State and is excited that her great-great grandfather will be heard through this new book.
Author Gari Carter will be speaking and signing books at the Civil War Preservation Trust Convention on Thursday, April 17 at 10AM at University Plaza Hotel.
Carter will also be at Borders signing books later that evening.
For KSMU News, I’m Kristian Kriner.
ISBN # 9781931112741
250 pages, hardback
$34.95
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