For Virginia: John Wilkes Booth, Thomas J. Jackson, Robert E. Lee, Edmund Ruffin, James Ewell Brown Stuart and the Civil War

For Virginia is an ..". exhaustive look at the Civil War...The text relies on a great number of firsthand accounts. Letters from soldiers, entries from diaries, and correspondence from officials are all included to create an image of a time that to modern readers may seem almost inconceivably brutal...makes the horrors and confusion of the period palpable...compelling...this book paints a complex portrait of a momentous war."
- Kirkus Reviews

"Mark Brewer brings us back to those crucial years when Americans slaughtered one another. Using engaging vignettes, he takes us into the minds of figures such as Robert E. Lee, Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, and John Wilkes Booth. These are not mere portrayals of historic figures, but examinations of very human characters full of flaws and nobility, struggling with momentous events."
- From the Forward by George J. Heidemark

Mark R. Brewer has an M.A. in U.S. history from Temple University in Philadelphia. He taught history for thirty-one years in southern New Jersey at Williamstown Middle School, Gloucester County College and Rowan University. He has been published in numerous Civil War publications, including Civil War Times Illustrated, Military Images and The Courier, among others. He is also the author of two fantasy fiction novels, Squire William's Lucky Day and it's sequel, In the Days of Lourde William. Mark lives in Pitman, New Jersey with his wife Laurie and one crazy cat.