Alec & Flora The Story of a family spans more than a century from prior to the Civil War to after 1950. The story begins and ends in the small town of East Bend, North Carolina. Bennett Rueben Martin, a Confederate soldier is killed in action with General Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and is 'lost", never to come home. Some months later, his wife Martha "Millie" Truelove, dies of grief - a love story - leaving their two young sons orphans of the...