Mississippi Non-Fiction Quality Books
This is a true story about the amazing Civil War adventures of Lt. Charles Read, CSN.

Mild mannered Charley Read was an Annapolis graduate from Mississippi.  He entered the Confederate Navy at age 21.  One of his shipmates said he could have easily stepped out of the pages of a Dumas novel.

His tombstone in Meridian reads:
With a crew of 17 he captured and burned 22 Union ships  in 21 days and struck terror across the eastern seaboard.

When Read died in 1890, Admiral George Dewey said, "There is no one in America who deserves a place in history more than Charles Read."

The book also contests the recent revision of history that maintains the Civil War was over slavery.

Civil War thru Vietnam--Ku Klux Klan--Gunfighters
Hard Cover, 263 Pages,   
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HE SAW THE ELEPHANT
This is a long buried true story, dark and foreboding, some of it almost unbelievable.

In the 1890's a sinister doctor entered into a conspiracy with local merchants. He poisoned as many as fifty of his own patients to collect life insurance. Newspapers called it the most heinous crime in the history of the nation.

The story flashes back to the Reconstruction period after the Civil War. A bitter feud between two prominent families, the Gullys and the Chisolms, led to what is called "the massacre". They say blood ran in the streets. The county is still called Bloody Kemper and the old feud is still going on.
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A piece of land in the hills of east Mississippi.   The people living there for 300 years.  This is the action filled true story that was twenty years in the making.

The story begins in 1695 with Alabama Mingo, Chief of the Choctaw war village of Koosa Town.  Pushmataha lived there, and his nephews Oklahoma and Nittekechi. 

It continues through the raging Civil War years with all the danger and hardships of a Confederate soldier and a young naval officer in combat.  Then the Meridian Riot that exploded for three violent days during Reconstruction in 1871.

There is murder in 1923, and bootleggers and revenuers in bloody gun fight.  And a graphic account of the sensational civil rights murders by the Ku Klux Klan in 1964, which was publicized by the fictional movie
Mississippi Burning.
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Hewitt Clarke is a graduate of Meridian High School and Ole Miss.  He was a Special Agent in the Counter Intelligence Corps in Korea and Japan, and has lived in Houston, Texas with his wife Lois for the past thirty years.
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The East End Tea Room
This is a true story about the citizens of Mississippi weathering the storm in the 1960's when hundreds of civil rights activists from the North invaded the state.  It was during a time when black ghettoes in the civil rights worker's own backyards in Northern cities were about to explode in death and destruction.  In one year, 67 race riots broke out in Northern cities.  In Detroit alone, 43 people were killed and millions of dollars in property destroyed.

And the nation may have noticed, but the media never reported, that none of these destructive race riots occurred in the South.

The story is about the civil rights movement in the 1960's, but it also describes an era of honky tonk fighters in Meridian, never equaled before or since.  The East End Tea Room was not a Klan hangout, but a colorful beer joint that depicts the honky tonk scene during that bygone period of Meridian's history.  The book is also an insiders account of the civil rights murders in the fictional movie
Mississippi Burning.

The East End Tea Room is dedicated to the citizens of Mississippi, white and black, who weathered the storm of the Second Reconstruction in Mississippi and later voted overwhelmingly to preserve the proud heritage of the Mississippi state flag.
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Hard Cover, 288 Pages,   
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WAR STORIES from Mississippi
War Stories takes the reader back through time from Vietnam to the Civil War with graphic descriptions of bloody battles where Mississippians fought and died. 

In 1934 a young man named Morris Cohen graduated from Mississippi State College. It was Cohen's destiny to become a major atomic bomb spy for the Soviet Union, and this story takes the reader into the shadow world of Soviet spies and high level treason in the US Government. 

The book relives the Bataan Death March and Corregidor and the horrors of Japanese POW camps. It recounts the Frozen Chosin campaign and fighting along the DMZ in Korea, and describes the harrowing experiences of three pilots at the brutal Hanoi Hilton in Vietnam. The story describes the terrors of mustard gas during trench warfare in World War I, and the battles where Lt. T.C. Carter fought in 1918. The author tells about his recent visit to the battlefields of Eastern France and the place where T.C. Carter was killed.  Then the incredible story of Lt. Charles Read's Civil War adventures. And along the way are poignant stories about boys and girls growing up in Meridian.

WAR STORIES is dedicated to the war veterans of Mississippi who fought in armed conflicts in the past and to the men and women now fighting with the US Armed Forces in Iraq.

Lt. Robert Wideman, Hanoi Hilton, May 1967: "I heard a blood curdling scream and started thinking about the Count of Monte Cristo who was in a dungeon for thirty years. It was terrifying.  But then I thought, but this is 1967, and that kind of stuff doesn't happen anymore."

Cpl. Andy Fenn, 38th Parallel in Korea, Summer 1951: "I heard those mines going off and terrible screaming. I couldn't stand the screams and went out in the minefield to help tote those fellows out on stretchers."

Sgt. Carl Holloway, Corregidor, April 1942: "I'll never forget the Emperor's birthday when the artillery shells started coming in from both sides. The whole island shook. I think it exceeded anything of its kind in the history of the world."

Morris Cohen, Miss State graduate, summer 1939: Semyonev held out a piece of broken comb, then Morris took out a piece of comb he had received at the spy school in Barcelona. The pieces fit together perfectly. It was Morris' first contact with an NKVD espionage agent.

Lt. T.C. Carter, Eastern France, September 1918: "The alarm was sounded by a hundred klaxon horns. Everyone put on their gas masks and soldiers put animal masks on the horses and mules.  The mustard gas fairly rained down in the woods around us."

Lt. Charles Read's tombstone at Rose Hill Cemetery, Meridian:  "With a crew of 17, he captured 22 Union ships in 21 days and struck terror across the eastern seaboard. The 1863 adventure has been called the most brilliant daredevil naval action of the Civil War."
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Hard Cover, 244 Pages