Brookhaven—A Civil War Historical Romance

In 1915, young reporter Elizabeth Putnam of the New York World is assigned a story on the Gray Wisp. New information has come to light about this Confederate spy in the Civil War, a figure of legend, myth, and wildly competing claims.

What no one knows is the man’s identity.

The reporter follows leads which eventually bring her to the small Mississippi town of Brookhaven. The Wisp agrees to tell his story, a tale of North and South, loss in wartime, narrow escapes from death in battles, family survival, the poetry of Longfellow, and love. And Elizabeth soon finds her own story has forever become part of the Gray Wisp’s.

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About the Author

Glynn Young is the author of Poetry at Work and The Dancing Priest series. He is a long-time editor at Tweetspeak Poetry and a retired speech writer who spent much of his professional life at a Fortune 500 company. Brookhaven was inspired by his own family stories of an ancestor—a teen who walked the many miles home after his long, hard days in the Civil War, only to discover that his family was no longer there.

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