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"Friends of the Wigwam is a fascinating and thoroughly engrossing historical novel. Author John William Huelskamp has combined extraordinary research and vivid narrative to create a compelling story. For people looking for a successor to Michael Shaara's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Killer Angels, they'll find it in Friends of the Wigwam."
Dwight Jon Zimmerman
New York Times best-selling coauthor of Lincoln's Last Days
"Friends of the Wigwam is an entertaining and tender tale of the relentlessness of love against daunting odds... a marvelously researched historical novel about Union soldiers and sympathizers, both moving and educational... a scholarly triumph, deftly bringing alive the volatile atmosphere of a nation in peril.."
Kirkus Reviews
"Using previously unpublished letters and diaries, the author re-creates the feel, the sense, and the sound of the 1860s. History repeats itself in the pages of Friends of the Wigwam in the best possible way."
Robert I. Girardi
Civil War author and historian
"It took a stranger passing through town to pull together one of the most important historical dramas of the Civil War. Huelskamp's research and story has set the record straight for future generations."
Harriet Gustason
Freeport Journal-Standard
FRIENDS OF THE WIGWAM is a historical novel and love story about six young friends whose innocence is stripped from them seemingly overnight in the brutal setting of the American Civil War.
Meticulously researched and based on real-life people and true events, FRIENDS OF THE WIGWAM spans 1857-1865 and introduces you to the courageous men and women from Illinois who staged one of the first contested national conventions, were responsible for getting Abraham Lincoln elected and made the ultimate sacrifice during the American Civil War.
From the true story of a young woman who successfully masqueraded as a man during the Civil War and was buried with full military honors to the often heart-wrenching letters home to wives and families and actual military correspondence between military leaders, author John William Huelskamp brings to life a volatile nation at war.
Celebrate each friend's successes and struggles on the battlefields, learn the story of those who led the battles, and meet a magnificent war-horse that is a steadfast survivor in the face of many tragedies.
Without at doubt, FRIENDS OF THE WIGWAM is one of the most moving Civil War novels you will ever read.
John William Huelskamp is a Civil War historian and author who has contributed to several Civil War periodicals including Civil War Regiments: A Journal of the American Civil War. His publication, Never Forsake the Colors, reintroduced the sacrifice of Union Colonel Holden Putnam and the 93rd Illinois Volunteer Infantry. He is also a contributing lecturer to Civil War roundtables and historical societies, and has provided Civil War authors including Peter Cozzens (The Shipwreck of Their Hopes) and Wiley Sword (Mountains Touched with Fire) with rare documents and diaries that have contributed to an understanding of civilians and soldiers during the climactic years of the Civil War. He resides in Deer Park, Illinois. His new book is Friends of the Wigwam: A Civil War Story (Barrington Group, Chicago, April 2016)
Friends of the Wigwam: A Civil War Story (Barrington Group, Chicago, 2016) can be purchased from Amazon and other booksellers nationwide. More information about John William Huelskamp can be found at www.friendsofthewigwam.com and Goodreads.
