Cannon at the First Battle of Bull Run (Photo credit: Jason Pier in DC)
My second manuscript is near completion. It’s titled The Journals of Lt. Arthur Kendal Everly: Poems of the American Civil War. In it, poem by poem (one poem = one journal entry) Everly tell us a tale; he speaks of his journey through the Civil War.
The final part of the book remains unwritten. It will deal with Everly’s experience in the Battle of First Bull Run. Everly will tell a gruesome story. His experience it that battle will, in many ways, destroy him. I find it strange that I’m hesitant to begin the destruction, so to speak. I’m hesitant to see what Everly sees, hesitant to feel what he feels because all he sees and feels will be torn from me. I will construct his hell and, in part, I will therefore construct a hell for me to lie in as well
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Oh, this is SO TRUE, Thomas. I feel for you. Yet I know that something inside you constrains you to proceed to the end. May the Lord help you to do so without too many negative effects in your own soul.
Thank you, Sanda. The end will come. I am on vacation now, enjoying my family. When I return home, Everly and I will proceed. And yes, our Father is a good father.
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