The General & The Lady: A True Story of Civil Love and War

In a country rent asunder by civil war, two people try to find love despite deeply held religious, political and age differences. This is a true story about US Civil War General John Fulton Reynolds, one of the most respected and admired Union officers of the war, and a beautiful woman sixteen years his junior,  Catherine Hewitt, whom everyone called Kate. 

Reynolds was destined to become one of the most famous officers of America’s Civil War.  President Abraham Lincoln even wanted Reynolds to lead his vast Army of the Potomac. Fate, however, had different plans for the general. He was shot and killed on the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, taking with him a secret so deep, not even his family members knew about it. 

 It turns out General Reynolds, who was stern, aloof, and highly principled, had a hidden love affair with a woman much younger than him. Why they had kept their love so private is embroiled with the intrigue of an era driven by war and prejudice so intense, it split the country apart. Their story of true love found and sadly lost is the story of a nation trying to find purpose and meaning among unbridled hatred and bigotry.

This historical-fiction novel is their tragic story as it truly happened, and as we imagined it happened.