Copperhead Moon - Stover, Herbert E
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The Union forces faced disaster on two sides. Confederate troops advanced determinedly from the South while, in the North, an amorphous army of deserters was being organized to strike at the back of the blue-uniformed soldiers with a blow that might prove as deadly as the bite of the small reptile whose name the Copperheads bore. Discharged from the Union Army, Coleman Jons turned his knowledge of the Pennsylvania backwoods and backwoodsmen to fight the subversive threat to the Union's rear. At first he had to be content with following out Governor Curtin's order to "raise a little hell."…mehr

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The Union forces faced disaster on two sides. Confederate troops advanced determinedly from the South while, in the North, an amorphous army of deserters was being organized to strike at the back of the blue-uniformed soldiers with a blow that might prove as deadly as the bite of the small reptile whose name the Copperheads bore. Discharged from the Union Army, Coleman Jons turned his knowledge of the Pennsylvania backwoods and backwoodsmen to fight the subversive threat to the Union's rear. At first he had to be content with following out Governor Curtin's order to "raise a little hell." Plagued on every hand by the hostile henchmen of the traitorous Senator Granly, to whose niece he owed his life, Jons answered the desperate call for men to stem the Confederate tide at Gettysburg. This victory, which merely intensified Copperhead activity, was to send him racing back to track down the Copperhead leaders in a series of daring escapades before they could loose, in the Union's midst, the destructive forces that lay behind the prisoner-of-war barricades at Elmira, New York-a mission which was to bring him finally into the arms of the girl who, despite her name, had won his heart. Mr. Stover has plunged his hero into one of the most vital phases of the Civil War, providing all the elements of a thrilling historical novel, from romance to violence. With renewed vigor, he writes about the territory of which he had become the ex officio historian through his Revolutionary novels, Song of the Susquehanna, Men in Buckskin, and Powder Mission.
Autorenporträt
Herbert Elisha "Bert" Stover, of Livonia, Pennsylvania, was a well-known area historian. Born at his homestead at the top of the mountain between Loganton and Livonia January 15, 1888, he was the son of Adam & Jessie (DeLong) Stover. He was married (June 9, 1917) to the former Elva Kyler who died in 1955. They had two daughters, Ann Stover McFate of English Center and Marjorie Murray of Williamsport; two grandchildren and four great grandchildren.Beginning at the age of 17, Mr. Stover was a school teacher. He taught in the schools of Brush Valley and schools of Huntingdon, Austin and Philipsburg. He also taught at Lock Haven State College and was the principal of the Lock Haven High School. Mr. Stover was the supervising principal of the Lewisburg School System for 25 years before his retirement in 1953. He was a graduate of Lock Haven State College and received his master's degree in Education from Bucknell University at Lewisburg. He also took several courses at PSU. After his retirement Mr. Stover did some graduate teaching at Bucknell.In the 1920s, he wrote short stories for many magazines across the country but was rejected nearly all the time. His short story "My Lesson" was accepted by True Confessions magazine in February 1929, but then the stock market crashed and the Great Depression followed.During World War II, Stover compiled a schoolbook titled History of Pennsylvania which was published in 1944 and circulated across the Commonwealth. This was followed by several historical novels that gained national acclaim, the most famous of which was Song of the Susquehanna (1949). Mr. Stover was a member of the Great Island Presbyterian Church in Lock Haven and an elder of the First Presbyterian Church in Lewisburg. He is buried at Dunnstown Cemetery.