The Valley of Shadows
Subtitle: SANGAMON SKETCHES (Prairie State Books)
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: December 1, 1989
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780252061035
Subjects: American history; 20th Century American Novel And Short Story; Biography / Autobiography; English; History: American; USA; General; History / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI); 1778-1865; Civil War, 1861-1865; Fiction; Historical fiction; History; Illinois; United States
First sentence: ALL through the winter the meeting-house on Saul's Prairie had stood deserted and dormant, its windows rattling in the bleak winds, perhaps longing for the coming revivals and the living, vital sympathy of beings "clothed in garments divine"; but now, how different it looked on this wonderful Sunday morning, with its door and windows wide open, the flowers in bloom, and the birds perched on the tallest weeds pouring forth their song!