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Rebel Correspondent by Steve Procko (Book Spotlight / Guest Post)

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Rebel Correspondent is the true story of a young man who joined the Confederate Army days after his eighteenth birthday and served bravely until the war ended. Wounded twice, he emerged a changed person. But he wasn’t just a returning veteran; he was also a writer.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, Arba F. Shaw was a fifty-seven-year-old farmer. On a chilly December day in 1901, he put pen to paper to write his memories of being a Rebel Private in the 4th Georgia Cavalry (Avery), C.S.A. He completed writing his account in February 1902. His local newspaper, the Walker County Messenger, in Lafayette, Georgia, published his account in more than fifty articles from 1901 to 1903. Then it was all but forgotten. Until Now. Rebel Correspondent presents Arba F. Shaw’s account word-for-word, as first published in the Walker County Messenger almost 120 years ago. Procko annotates Shaw’s account with in-depth research, verifying it and uncovering the back story of his life and the lives of his Rebel comrades. Procko’s research offers a historical perspective on the many places and events Shaw so richly described.

 
 
 
 
 
Meet the Author:
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Steve Procko never thought of himself as a Civil War history buff, let alone a biographer. He does love history, however, particularly learning about the small, everyday events in the lives of little-known people and the small towns they lived in.

A documentarian and cinematographer, Steve was sleuthing stories for a documentary series he has developed, “There’s History Around Every Bend,” currently available on YouTube, when he came across the writings of Private Arba F. Shaw.

The down-to-earth accounts of the everyday life of a lowly private just struggling to survive one of the greatest events in American history fascinated Steve. As he read the series of articles, mostly unread since they were published in a small, north Georgia newspaper in 1901-1903, he began to realize that this was a remarkable cache of history.

A native of Florida, Steve, with his Lauren and their dog Rigby, splits his time between a mountain log cabin nestled next to Stanley Creek near the town of Blue Ridge, Georgia, and a home in Ocala, Florida.

He opened a commercial film production company with a partner in 1984. In 2003 the company became Steve Procko Productions (SPP). His Emmy-award-winning financial literacy program Talkin’ Money Minutes is available on over 100 Public Television stations nationwide. SPP has also won three additional Emmys over fifty Addy Awards, Telly Awards, and two Promax awards.

When he’s not behind a video camera or researching the archives for his next documentary or book, Steve explores remote areas throughout the United States and Canada as a fine art photographer. He has had work displayed at The Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, The Museum of Art in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, as well as solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States. 

Steve’s second book, Captured Liberty, another Civil War story about nine POW Union officers and their amazing escape will be published in 2022. He also plans to develop documentaries about The Rebel Correspondent and Captured Liberty.

 

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By: Steve Procko; Author, Rebel Correspondent – RebelCorrespondent.com
 
 
I love detective work. Tracing history’s mysteries and sleuthing anecdotal stories to separate the wheat from the chaff has become an obsession, and for me, Rebel Correspondent is one of those stories.

So why write a book based on the 120-year-old writings of a Confederate private in a time when this country often feels more divided than ever? Because factual history, regardless of the point of view, is important.

When Arba F. Shaw sat down and began writing his account of his experiences in the Civil War, he must have known that if he didn’t do so, those memories would be forever lost.

In the first place I will say that it was a hard task for me to leave a pleasant home where peace and abundant comfort were takin in exchange a miserable out door life where I was liable to be killed any day, but it was a task that for the sake of honor I could not shirk from and now l am glad I performed it”, said Shaw.


He was writing of things that had occurred more than thirty-five years earlier, but they were clearly events deeply burned into his mind. Shaw memories were sharp. They had not faded in over thirty-five years–his account of events were proven to be incredibly accurate.

In the 150-plus years since Arba became a lowly private, tens of thousands have followed as young adults who enlisted into the conflict their country found itself engaged in at that particular moment—all of them driven by honor and duty. This is not a book arguing the reasons why Civil War came to be or why today we still haven’t quite finished the argument.

This book is a story of survival. It was the underlying theme then, and it has resonated through every war and conflict this country has found itself in ever since.

 

 
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If you’ve visited my site even once, you know I promote books or items centered around books. However, today’s post is not about books. No, it’s about the election. Mr. Trump can not serve four more years in the White House. He can not keep pulling us into the darkness. He thinks himself as a god, but he’s more like the devil.

 

TRUMP promotes violence.

TRUMP supports racism and racist lead groups/individuals/affiliations. You’ve seen him openly congratulate those who incite violence.

TRUMP made a mockery of our judicial system.

TRUMP choses dictators over his own intelligence officers.

TRUMP mocked those who wear a mask as thousands of his voters die, alone in hospital rooms.

TRUMP discourages free speech

TRUMP has NO respect for women. He wants to fully defund Planned Parenthood but hasn’t taken away any fertility rights from men. They (men) can get viagra, but he (Trump) makes it more difficult for us (women) to receive affordable contraception.

TRUMP threatens to take money away from anyone who doesn’t step in line with him. That is the mindset of a DICTATOR!

TRUMP is also claiming, publicly – on the record, he won’t give up the office peacefully. That is UNCONSTITUTIONAL. I’m not surprised though… he hasn’t been known to follow the Constitution thus far. 

We all know what a clusterfuck he made of COVID-19. Trump’s incompetence, his lies, his inability to listen to the science/ scientists, is the reason why we (Americans) are suffering so much. He thinks he knows more than science. I believe he’s delusional. Watch the videos of the doctors and nurses begging people to take this seriously. Watch grieving people beg for the public to take COVID seriously, and then watch Trump mock those who are taking COVID seriously. Watch and ask yourself, is he the right person to tackle the pandemic? Really, is he? I think NOT. I think you know he isn’t either.

Oh and let’s not forgot what he retweeted in October… He thinks Obama and the Navy Seals staged the photos of Osama bin Laden’s death. Trump is out of control! 

 

 

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