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July 29, 2020

“A city girl is uprooted and moved to the farm, where she must overcome her fears and learn to live life in a rougher way.”

-from the publisher

On Rising Ground: The Life and Civil War Letters of John M. Douthit, Fifty-Second Georgia Volunteer Infantry Regiment

By Elaine Fowler Palencia
Mercer University Press
176 pages
$27

“Elaine Palencia has written a richly-researched, and, in the end, poignant account of a Confederate foot soldier from the mountains of North Georgia.”

~ W. Clifford Roberts, Jr., president of the General Barton Stovall Association

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