Description
In the early days of April 1865, Robert E. Lee’s remaining Confederate army is bleeding, exhausted and nearly surrounded. Striking out for Danville in hopes of joining General Johnston’s army, Lee comes across some Union soldiers on a hill to his front. Seeing they are merely cavalry that he can easily brush aside, Lee comes at them. His elation turns to dismay upon seeing the small cavalry backed by waves of blue-coated infantry. The Rebels are surrounded, and for General Lee – the jig is up.
Raymond Rutherford, a handsome colonel in Lee’s army is wounded on the last day of the war. When he learns of the Confederate surrender from his field hospital bed, he cannot wait for his wounds to heal and immediately sets out for his North Carolina home.
Along the way, his unhealed wound proves too much for him, and he collapses in a young woman’s yard while trying to get water from her well. As he slowly recovers in the woman’s watchful care, his complete recovery is certain, but slow. In the dark days following the war, this fateful meeting will move Rutherford down a slippery path that will change his life forever.
In Rutherford, the final volume of the Three Came Home trilogy, Aronoff captures the romance of the old South, and the struggle of a broken society to defend and support one another. Rutherford helps the Confederate widow fend off carpetbaggers, crooked lawmen, and assorted scallywags looking to take advantage of the defeated populace. A smart, tough Colonel is just what this single mother needs to protect her son and the little she has left.
