'T was in Dixie

<p>In sitting down to write this historical novel of our Civil War I have tried to include a number of points in order to convey an interesting story while at the same time supplying accurate historical dates places etc. etc.. But yes you may well conjecture you are a Southerner. Yes that is true for I am no less than a Southern Partisan to the very marrow of all my old bones. I feel that I was truly blessed to have been fashioned from the tough dirt of this our Old South and yes to me and to all the folks I know it will always be the Old South. For the valiant Confederacy of these Southern States comprised the very last Christian nation as this our technically -spiraling world spins through these last sands of mortal time. These words which I have written may indeed offend a few but then again real Southerners around the world will easily understand them. I do believe that many folks who love freedom and the slower old days of living where grace and love and courage existed aside from the coarsening which is so prominently a part of these latter says will enjoy it too.</p>