Up From Corinth

J. Arthur Moore

May 2017 · Book Venture Publishing LLC

About this ebook

Duane Kinkade’s search for his father leads him to the Confederate Army at Corinth, Mississippi, and into battle near a church called Shiloh at a place called Pittsburg Landing. The circumstances of battle land him with the Union Army in the care of an army surgeon.

UP FORM CORINTH is the story of that battle and the months that follow through the summer and fall of 1862. Finally, in the winter of ’62-’63, Duane is able to begin his trek back to the Confederate Army.

About the author

J. Arthur Moore is an educator with over 41 years experience in public, private, and independent settings. He is also an amateur photographer and has illustrated his works with his own photographs.

In addition to Journey into Darkness, Mr. Moore has written Blake’s Story, Revenge and Forgiveness, a Civil War historic fiction set in the Kentucky Campaign of 1862; “Heir to Balmawr”, a drama for his fifth grade students; a number of short pieces and short stories.

His latest release, just prior to Blake’s Story, is an earlier novel titled Summer of Two Worlds, set in Montana Territory in the summer of 1882.

A graduate of Jenkintown High School, just outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he attended West Chester State College, currently West Chester University. Upon graduation, he joined the
Navy and was stationed in Norfolk, Virginia, where he met his wife to be, a widow with four children. Once discharged from the service, he moved to Coatesville, Pennsylvania, began his teaching career, married and brought his new family to live in a 300-year-old farm house in which the children grew up and married, went their own ways, raised their families to become grandparents themselves.