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The Spur and the Sash is about a real person. Sergeant George B. Van Norman, a Yankee, was wounded in one of the last battles of the Civil War, at Nashville. Left behind to convalesce as the armies moved on, he was assigned to guard a local plantation from January to July, 1965, where he fell in love with the owner's daughter. That much is fact.The fiction begins with his wounding at the battle, and follows him to the plantation, where he meets the woman, her family, and the people living there, former slaves who have been emancipated yet have no place to go. He befriends a former Confederate soldier, and together, they overcome displaced mobs of wandering blacks, deserters from both sides, carpetbaggers, and bushwhackers marauding through Middle Tennessee, including precursors to the Ku Klux Klan. The story was meticulously researched for accuracy using letters, diaries, and official records.George left behind a spur and a sash, given to him by the woman he loved, handed down to the author's father, who knew George and learned his story as a young boy, who passed the story along to his son, the author. This is that story.