New Book Release
The Toothpick received an email regarding the publication on a book whose plot takes the characyers to Arkansas during the War Between the States. This may be of interest to some of our readers:
I invite you to read Queen of the Lost, the story of Lucy Holcombe Pickens of Texas and South Carolina and sister-inlaw of General Elkanah Greer who led the third Texas Cavalry. He and his men met at Bentonville and fought at Pea Ridge, eventually positioning his men at Elkhorn Tavern. His wife Lucy’s sister had been with him at Frog Bayou, doing some nursing, before they rode out.
Greer was the Texas president of the Knights of the Golden Circle prior to the war.
Lucy, wife of S.C. Governor Francis Pickens, had attracted great attention from the czar when she went with Ambassador Pickens to Russia in 1857, enough attention to come home with jewels to outfit the legion named in her honor.
A history buff said, “You will enjoy the historical parts of Queen of the Lost as our author takes us on a journey with Lucy’s family into several states, leading us into the Civil War, through the hardships of the war upon the South, Lucy’s home of Edgefield, S.C., and, of course, the adventurous life and travels of the most charming Southern Belle Lucy. Knoxville, TN
And another from Alaska writes: “I really enjoyed it and wished it would go on forever. I keep replaying parts of it in my mind even now.”
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Thanks.
Emily Cooper
queenoftheconfederacy@gmail.com
