John Jackson: 3 books

Pearl River is an adventure story about Indians, war, friendship, and love in the historic setting of the campaign for New Orleans during the War of 1812. A Virginia-born physician, Glenn Buchanan, returns from surgical study in Paris to join Andrew Jackson's army in the defense of New Orleans....

Short Flights has a foreword explaining the author's note that precedes each individual story, giving a bit of background for the story. The stories themselves are wide ranging in both setting and content. There is a fictionalized version of a real U.S. Navy blimp being blown from Texas to Mississippi...

A young physician Jesse Jamison enters his obligated service in the U.S. Army as a First Lieutenant during the peacetime lull between the Korean and Vietnam Wars. Working in a poorly-heated antiquated dispensary building, he tries to improve working conditions by alterations to the building. His corpsman...