Purgatory: A Novel of the Civil War (40 page)

I Rode with
Stonewall—
Henry Kyd Douglas

Chickamauga and Other Civil War
Stories—
edited by Shelby
Foote

Life of Turner
Ashby—
Thomas Almond Ashby

The Civil
War—
Geoffrey Ward with Ric Burns and
Ken Burns

Hardtack and Coffee: The
Unwritten Story of Army Life—
John D.
Billings

A Different
Sin—
Rochelle H. Schwab

Civil War
Virginia—
James I. Robertson,
Jr.

The Stonewall
Brigade—
James I. Robertson,
Jr.

Soldiers Blue and
Gray—
James I Robertson, Jr.

Wearing of the
Gray—
John Esten Cooke

An American Iliad: The Story of
the Civil War—
Charles P.
Roland

A Taste for War: The Culinary
History of the Blue and the Gray—
William C. Davis

The Story the Soldiers Wouldn’t
Tell: Sex in the Civil War—
Thomas P.
Lowry, M.D.

The Life of Johnny Reb: The
Common Soldier of the Confederacy—
Bell
Irvin Wiley

The Life of Billy Yank: The
Common Soldier of the Union—
Bell Irvin
Wiley

The Civil War Paintings of Mort Künstler, Volumes
1-4

Facts the Historians Leave Out:
A Confederate Primer—
John S.
Tilley

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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J
eff Mann
grew up in
Covington, Virginia, and Hinton, West Virginia, receiving degrees
in English and forestry from West Virginia University. His poetry,
fiction, and essays have appeared in many publications, including
Arts and Letters
,
Prairie
Schooner
,
Shenandoah
,
Willow Springs
,
The Gay and Lesbian
Review Worldwide
,
Crab Orchard
Review
, and
Appalachian Heritage
. He
has published three award-winning poetry chapbooks,
Bliss
,
Mountain Fireflies
, and
Flint Shards from Sussex
; three full-length
books of poetry,
Bones Washed with Wine
,
On the Tongue
, and
Ash:
Poems from Norse Mythology
; two collections of personal
essays,
Edge: Travels of an Appalachian Leather
Bear
and
Binding the God: Ursine Essays
from the Mountain South
; two novellas,
Devoured
, included in
Masters of
Midnight: Erotic Tales of the Vampire
, and
Camp Allegheny
, included in
History’s
Passion: Stories of Sex Before Stonewall
; two novels,
Fog: A Novel of Desire and Reprisal
and
Purgatory: A Novel of the Civil War
; a book
of poetry and memoir,
Loving Mountains, Loving
Men
; and a volume of short fiction,
A
History of Barbed Wire
, which won a Lambda Literary Award.
He teaches creative writing at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg,
Virginia.