How I Found the Strong
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He is too young, too skinny, too weak. Its stolen his grandfather, his grandmother.It is the spring of 1861, and the serenity of Smith County, Mississippi, has been shattered by Abraham Lincolns declaration of war on the South. It has robbed Frank of a simpler way of taking things away from a person, mercilessly. Although he is not allowed. Now all that replaces those images are questions: Will I ever see my father and brother again? Why are we fighting for the wrong reasons? Will things ever be the same around here?. After all, hes just Shanks, the baby of the Russell family. But not ten-year-old Frank Russell. And this war takes from Frank a mighty sum. Its nabbed his Pa and older brother. And gone are his idealistic dreams of heroic battles and hard-fought victories
Captain John Smith
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Less than a year after landing at Jamestown, Captain John Smith arrives in Werowocomoco (meeting place of chiefs), in what will become Gloucester County. According to legend, the ancient Powatans Chimney in Wicomico is the remains of a house known to have been built by Dutchmen at the direction of Captain Smith as a peace offering to the present Wicomico region around Shelly or possibly at Purtan Bay (previously Poetan, which may