As news of the Civil War reaches his rural Kentucky home, Harper Hunt forfeits peaceful solitude of family life to join the Union Army, where his strength and courage soon have him leading a decorated cavalry unit. Eventually, though, blight of war overtaxes the young soldier, and military and personal losses cast him into the depths of self-destruction. But God uses broken people to rescue broken people, and soon Harper Hunt finds himself pulled from the ashes of the past by a one-time enemy. Based on the real-life experiences of author C.W. Shumate’s great-grandfather, Ghosts of Blackberry Holler is an exhilarating journey through American history and a stirring account of war and peace, triumph and defeat, hostility and friendship, love lost and found, and the elusive pursuit of unconditional redemption.
