Sons of East Tennessee

<p> Two aging Civil War veterans mourned the death of their sons at a joint funeral in Knoxville National Cemetery. One a cavalry general had fought for the Union. The other had served as surgeon/major of a Confederate cavalry regiment. They met for the first time at the graves of their sons--two army lieutenants and University of Tennessee graduates killed together in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. Newspaper accounts presented the encounter as an example of reconciliation between North and South.</p><p> This book recounts the meeting of two families from opposing sides of the war--both rooted in East Tennessee a region harshly divided by the conflict--placing their story in the context of America's reconciliation narrative at the end of the 19th century.</p>