Book excerpt:
As the southbound Virginia and Tennessee train came to a hissing, rumbling stop at the Abingdon railroad station on a September night in 1864, three-year-old Jesse Crowell peered through the passenger car window and—amid the smoke, steam, and night fog—saw a tar-black man holding tightly to the bridle of a cottony-white horse.
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