How did the book come about? A neighbor of mine about two miles over the mountain from our log cabin on Stanley Creek shared an old photograph of 12 men in early 2021. Evidently, one of the men in the 156-year-old photograph was an ancestor of his, his great-uncle whose name was David Ledford who had helped a group of Union POWs escape through the mountains. Or so he thought. What he told me was an American Civil War POW… Read More »Civil War POW Escape Story