My Great Grandfather Was General Stonewall Jackson : The Story of a Negro Boy Growing up in the Segregated South

This is the story of a young Negro boy growing up in the depression-ridden years of the 1930s. The author was told by his aunt that he is the direct descendant of Stonewall Jackson. Her startling disclosure rescues the boy from an obscurity of the soul & gives him a vision of himself as an heroic warrior, battling the slings & arrows of outrageous fortune which he suffers growing up in Fayetteville, North Carolina. The novel's serio-comic style takes David through a series of adventures which chronicles his personal growth while managing to take a searching look at the poverty, hopeless despair & harsh racial climate of the times. The handle of a garden hoe robs him of a chance to relieve his would-be sweetheart of her virginity. At sixteen, he loses his innocence in the back seat of a crowded Model A Ford while traveling to church in a violent thunder storm. A hitch in the army & overcoming the death of his mother completes his journey to manhood. It is a personal history, told in a brutally honest voice which won't let you go. David Jonathan Sawyer has ripped away the barriers & beautifully captured what it is to be human & humane. The book also contains unretouched photographs & documents to support Sawyer's relationship to Stonewall Jackson. To order: call 1-410-563-4431.Sawyer, David J. is the author of 'My Great Grandfather Was General Stonewall Jackson : The Story of a Negro Boy Growing up in the Segregated South', published 1992 under ISBN 9780963420602 and ISBN 0963420607.