Brothers, Blue & Gray

by Massey, Ellen Gray; Massey, Ruth Ellen

• ISBN13: 9781732139183
• ISBN10: 1732139180
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2021-08-10
• Publisher: Treehouse Publishing Group

Summary

Now with a new foreword from the author’s daughter, Ruth Ellen Massey. The Civil War has broken out in Missouri and Lettie Worthington won't take sides—though she has a brother fighting in each army and a fiancé with a guerrilla band sympathetic to the South. Not involved in the conflict, Lettie deals with her own struggles and hardships at home, and with the help of former slaves, she saves her family's hemp and tobacco farm. Upon learning that both brothers were in the Battle of Lexington, twenty miles west, she leaves the farm and paddles a skiff up the Missouri River to find them.

Author Biography

Ellen Gray Massey (1922 - 2014) published numerous articles, short stories, essays, and books in her 92 years. After retiring from teaching in Lebanon, Missouri, she had given 428 talks—120 of them to the Missouri Humanities Council. In 1995 she was inducted into the Writers Hall of Fame of America and her writing has received numerous other awards. From 1973 to 1983 she directed high school students who published Bittersweet, the Ozark Quarterly. Dr. Ruth Ellen Massey, the daughter of author Ellen Gray Massey, is a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine in Rogersville, MO. Ruth is keeping her mother's passion for midwest history alive by writing a foreword to and reissuing her mother's previously published titles.