Throw in Loner

About the Book

Throw-In Loner follows the adventures of Sam Richardson, a private soldier in the Thirteenth Alabama Infantry, as he fights his way through the three days of bloody Battle at Gettysburg. Along the way, Sam encounters Kevin Mulroney, a private in the Twenty-Fourth Michigan and a member of the famous Iron Brigade. He meets Elizabeth Schmidt, a local resident who lives on a small farm near the battlefield. Her husband, Jacob, is a member of the 114th Pennsylvania of the Union Third Corps. The story also chronicles the exploits of Johnny Robinson, Billy O’Neal, Jimmy Corchoran, and Dicky McMahon, all privates in the Sixty-Ninth Pennsylvania, as they defend the stone wall on Cemetery Ridge. Relive the drama and the glory of the greatest battle in American history. Experience the terror and the horror of the firing line as the private soldiers of the North and South did. Who will survive the three days of Battle at Gettysburg?

About the Author

William Sindewald is a retired high school physics teacher. He lives with his wife, Deborah, in a small suburb of Chicago, Illinois. He has been a student of Civil War History for fifty years.