It is 1856 in a quiet town tucked away in the hills of central Pennsylvania.
The Calm and the Strife dramatizes the divisions created by the storm of vi.
This important new Historical Novel traces the ordinary lives of three of Gettysburg\'s former citizens - -Jennie- Wade, Wesley Culp, and Johnston Skelly - from their childhoods together through the climactic battle that changed the town forever.
The people of Gettysburg go about their lives under the looming shadow of secession.
It is 1856 in a quiet town tucked away in the hills of central Pennsylvania