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Coal Black Horse

Robert Olmstead novel about Robert Childs: He is fourteen in 1863. About the time of the Civil War. His mother sent him to bring his father home from the war zone. She learns of the murder of Stone Wall and feel the war is over. Additionally, if Jackson is dead that’s a bad omen. So, she wants her husband home fast, out of this senseless battle.

So, fourteen-year-old Robert is sent out to find his father. On the way he gets a coal black horse, left by a dead man. The young boy had a rough time, on the way he experienced death, he narrowly escapes death himself. Needless to say, there is suffering, lawlessness and carnage, but he learns to survive fast. Continue the read, buy now.

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