F. Martin Harmon
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Product Description Named after Civil War icon Stonewall Jackson, Thomas Jackson Campbell is finally settling into a contented lifestyle in the Northe
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rn Virginia suburbs after the loss three years earlier of his wife and retirement from a long-time position with the National Parks Service. Although his relationship with his only child, a son, is somewhat strained, he has a special rapport with his eighteen year old grandson and settles into what he foresees as the quiet and routine last years of his life. Then one morning that routine is interrupted with news of a battle brewing between a land developer and local preservationists over property adjacent to the Manassas Battlefield. His former employer draws Thomas, long known for his Civil War Knowledge, into the fray. At the same time, very strange events begin to take place. Is he losing his mind to senility? Or is someone or something trying to reach out to him from beyond this world? F. Martin Harmon combines historical facts, current events, and a magical imagination of what might have been to create a riveting story about undying love and unfulfilled destiny in Miracle at Manassas. About the Author An avid Civil War reader and former student of history and journalism at East Tennessee State University, F. Martin Harmon was recently named the Director of Public Relations at The Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation in Warm Springs, Georgia, after almost fourteen years at Georgia State University in Atlanta, where he was Assistant Athletics Director for Media Relations. Harmon has been a journalist for almost three decades, having worked as a sports writer for both the Johnson City Press-Chronicle and the Nashville Banner before entering the world of college athletics as a publicist and information director (SID) in 1978. Before joining the staff of Georgia State in 1986, Harmon was SID at Austin Peay Sate University in Clarksville, Tennessee, and at Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, Louisiana. Harmon is a longstanding member of the College Sports Information Directors of America and served as a venue press chief during Atlantas 1996 Centennial Summer Olympics. Harmon and his wife of twenty-eight years, Sharon, both native Tennesseans, now live in Snellville, Georgia. They are the proud parents of two sons: Matthew, a recent business graduate of Georgia State University, and Andrew, a graphic design student at Kennesaw State University
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