Introduction

Hi Everyone,

I recently studied the Civil War, and was inspired to write a bit on how the war ended.

The main reason I want to do this is to fix all the details in my mind more permanently, which happens when I take the extra effort to think in depth, in order to portray it in the eyes of the character in my story.

 I am not going to say that this will be my best work, because it won't be. I won't even call this work a book. I merely want to give some insight to the readers about the state of the confederate army before the civil war ended, as well as the events leading up to it.

 I will be taking my information from an amazing book called "Killing Lincoln" by Bill O'Reilly [part 1], which I reccomend highly, as well as online sources.

One section of the story will be posted a day after the first is posted.

The main character, whose name is George Pennon, is a fictitional common soldier in the confederate army. You will be introduced to him at the end of the siege of Petersburg.

He and his friend, Matthew Sandler,(also fictitional) are going to be used for my purpose as basically 'flies on the wall'. Meaning, they don't play important roles in the story or historical events in general, so that the actual occurrences can lead the flow of the storyline.

  I hope you will enjoy this as a way to get to understand the end of the civil war.

 ~ A.B. Elliott