Luther's Women

About the Book

In Luther’s War, the old man Luther recounts his boyhood years and his years as a Confederate Soldier. In 1864, at age 18, mortally sick with the fevers, he decided to quit the War. He vows that “if’n I’m goin’ to die, it’ll be on my way home.” Home was several hundred miles away.

Now he tells his stories about the journey and his return, on Ole Mule and the black stallion Thunder, to his home in Stewart County, Tennessee. He recollects places and people along the way. Mainly he recollects the women he met. Some he loved. All had something to teach him about himself and how to be a man.

Back at home, he starts his new life, encountering his mother Harriet; Nadine, who didn’t wait for his return; and his true love Narcissa, whom he marries at age 21, in 1867.

Luther’s Women is the sequel to Luther’s War (Xlibris, Philadelphia, 2005).

Dr. Morris is Professor Emeritus, the University of Iowa. His previous published works are professional and scientific. This is his first work of fiction. He is a native of Stewart County, Tennessee, and lives now in Tucson.