Marek Bennett is back with a second volume of Henniker, NH native, Freeman Colby's civil war memoirs. Bennett's comics adaptation of the actual Civil War memoir brings to life the dry humor and grim conviction of teacher-turned-soldier Freeman Colby, in The Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby, Volume 2: 1863.
"1863: The continuing saga of a Yankee schoolteacher in the Union Army:Marek Bennett is a NH-based cartoonist, musician, and educator. His comics work includes the first installment of Freeman Colby's memoirs, The Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby: 1862: A New Hampshire Teacher Goes to War, the local history webcomic LIVE FREE AND DRAW!, the graphic novel travel memoir, SLOVAKIA: Fall in the Heart of Europe, and numerous other works.
Young Freeman Colby joined the 39th Massachusetts Regiment in search of "better returns," but now he just wants to survive the war and return home to his friends & family in New England Marching deeper into the war-torn heart of Virginia, he crosses paths with countless fellow survivors -- widows, poets, volunteer nurses, refugee children, ragged soldiers, brave mothers striving to deliver their families from slavery...
This wide-ranging graphic novel weaves together their stories with Colby's actual letters home, laying bare the day-to-day human struggles that shaped one of the most consequential years in American history." --Gibson's Bookstore website
Join Marek at Gibson's Bookstore on Wednesday, June 26th, 2019 at 6 p.m., where he will be discussing and signing his newest book!
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