Chapter ONE - Weebly

Acknowledgments
I’ve written history, and I’ve written fiction; this was my
first foray into writing them simultaneously. Not
surprisingly, I needed a good deal of help along the way
and so have many people to thank.
John C. Willis, Ph.D., Professor of United States
History at Sewanee, the University of the South,
answered literally hundreds of questions, and steered
me to some terrific source material. Our morning
conversations at the gym, as we pedaled our stationary
bikes to nowhere, made this process even more
enjoyable than it would otherwise have been.
Christopher M. McDonough, Ph.D., Professor of
Classical Languages at Sewanee, translated spells into