All Comments on 'Crossing Rivers'

Excellent story! I really like your historical stories and your characters.

5

Another lovely story. Thank you.

I enjoyed reading this story again, Ronde. It is well told. We live about 30 miles upstream from Sylamore in Baxter County. I always figured its name was just a corruption of "Sycamore." Thanks for all your wonderful writing.

You really are one hell of a good writer. I especially like your grasp of history. I had no idea parts of Tennessee and northern Alabama sided with the enemy. And as we have discussed I really appreciate your attention to detail regarding firearms.

Thank you for all your work on our behalf

A terrific combination of history, romance, firearms detail, personal feelings and human ingenuity. A really good read. 5*

Each of your stories are better than the last! Thanks for another great one!

I like your use of (I assume) accurate historical details that add depth to the story. The Civil War was a horror show. The war injuries were an order of magnitude worse than anything ever seen. Anesthesia was primitive and generally unavailable. Strong work.

Beautiful

Great story I can’t think of a better way to say it. Life had to be hard then but they both found love. Keep writing and thanks for telling a great story.

A masterpiece of romance and historical fiction. A "must read"!

The Hoary Cleric

Great story. A little close to home as I am near Bentonville.

Nice story, well written. Historically correct, with nothing that I can say is wrong. War is not sentimentalized, the way most history books do (because the larger scale removes them from the individuality of human costs). Also war is done by human beings and no one is inherently the good guy - people 'fit in' and do what their comrades think of as normal or justified.

Racism was never a majority opinion in the South, but folks accepted that "that's just the way it is" because loud-mouthed bigots made it seem to be the social standard.

Very good understanding of the Civil War and immediate aftermath. Well done.

Nice story. Very well written with good characters. Thank you for sharing your creative work with us.

Hot dam! Another gift from a fine writer. I have often thought that must be a professional author and some where out there there is all stack of best sellers that I must read. Five well deserved stars.

Very well told, but a little too sad for me.

The confederate army consisted of slavers, slave owners, slavery supporters, and traitors. Hard to see them as heroes, no matter how hard white supremacists work at it.

Another excellent story and one I will read again and again.

That's written with love.

A great story, thanks. You now have me looking at google earth to try and find the gate! Well written.

I always look forward to your stories. I'm amazed at your breadth of knowledge and talent

Wonderful story, you are a very talented storyteller.

Excellent - well worth 5 stars.

Great story

Swapping cylinders in Remington New Model Army revolves has questionable historical accuracy. Every firearm historian that I have read or listened to says it is practice first heard of in the movie Pale Rider. Dropping a precapped cylinder is a scary thought. The manufacturing consistency is also an issue. Changing cylinders between guns is problematic due to manufacturing tolerances. Fun guns to shoot. I like shooting my ASM New Model Navy better than the New Model Armies I have.

A whole new perspective for the Civil War. Thanks...

This year I’ve visited some of your common locations, Nashville, Knoxville, Chattanooga, and some of the surrounding countryside. I enjoyed the Chickamauga and Chattanooga battlefields, too. It adds to my enjoyment when I read your stories and your vivid descriptions of your settings.

Your Civil War research appears complete and accurate to me. I don’t have detailed information about the firearms of the day, but I suspect that your protagonist might not know all the technical aspects of his, as well. I’m glad that he didn’t need to use the pistols! Your story helps the reader to understand the terrible costs of war in general, and specifically the American Civil War.

As always, I appreciate your interesting, likable, well-described characters, and your sweet story. We knew how it would end, but we enjoyed the trip!

Thank you once again for writing and thank you for sharing your work.

Another lovely story. 5* That quote at the end really got to me. My wife of 54 1/2 years is in hospice care now and we are unlikely to reach our 55th anniversary. Those words, though neither of us are religious, I find comforting. Thank you.

What can I say? Another excellent story based on the Civil War. 5⛤

Bravo! Thanks for a moving tale.

Wow, another fabulous story,!!!!!

I am always looking for your next story..

Wonderful well written story. Gave you another Five Stars, which really is not enough. Thank you for it.

not enough

Another outstanding story

Another really great story, full oof well-done background. Thank you!

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Just a side note: I'd never heard of "leather breeches beans" before, so I looked them up. Seems like it's normally "leather britches beans". Not sure about in Arkansas in the middle nineteenth century. (And "britches" started off just as a colloquial pronunciation of "breeches", after all, and was probably the way it was actually said then and there, however they might have spelled it.)

I have really enjoyed and appreciated each story by this writer that I have read. Especially those with a historical base.

This is the best of all the Civil War stories on this site, because it deals with the battles, the certainty of the outcome, and the difficult postwar period, plus the ability of families to get back together, and replace hate with love.

Lovely story

All of your stories are very good. This one ranks as one of the best. 5 ⭐

GREAT story. Another 5🌟

Another great story. Thank you. 5*