Alpheus Williams: 2 books

There was a time when people read the sea. They touched skin and scale, fur and feather and divined the weather and the way of things with their fingertips. They felt its dimpled skin, watched its rippled surface and it sang to them and they heard its song. Mattie Finn surfs dark water when the moon...

A candidate for the title of “unsung hero” among the Union generals of the Civil War, Alpheus Williams, “Old Pap” to his men, wrote as frequently as he could to his family in Detroit of his successes, achievements and battles during that terrible period of strife. In this engaging collection...