The beginning of the Shoal Creek Saga
Sixteen-year-old Coop Gill joined the Confederate Army in 1864. He traveled from his home in Alabama to Virginia and soon was in the war. He distinguished himself and was selected as a sharpshooter. He fought in the Shenandoah Valley, om to Richmond and finally to Appomattox where he witnessed the surrender of General Lee.
With the end of the war, he returned home to a devastated South. The Reconstruction Period had begun. Outside Northern forces were taking over local governments in the effort to reintegrate the southern states into the Union. Coop and others fought against those called "carpetbaggers".
During this period his family were involved in the fledgling textile industry. Cotton planters were building mills to process and weave their cotton. They saw industry as a part of rebuilding the South.
Now a young man, Coop was torn between his duty to the South and to his family. At the same time his life was complicated by several young ladies vying for his attention

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