Avery's crossroad
By: Deanna K. Klingel
Publisher: JourneyForth
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Greenville, S.C
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781606821930
Subjects: Medical care; Fiction; Quakers; History
Description: Quaker Avery Bennett  earns his degree from the Medical College of Virginia in 1863, but questions whether he wants to practice medicine after the Civil War.
Table of contents: title: Part one. 1863 : Not how it should be, but how it is.; title: Odd communications; title: Kaboom!; title: Elmo Silas, honey man; title: Desperation; title: Spring fever; title: Boys on the town; title: Commencement; title: The doctor is in; title: Strange bedfellows; title: Under the pear tree; title: Other perspectives on the war; title: Mixed blessings; title: Not how it should be, but how it is; title: Ice and candy; title: Ma Parks and Squirrel; title: The Carl conundrum; title: Part two. 1864 : Rainbows and cannon fire.; title: Healing art; title: Mysterious scaffold; title: Growing pains; title: Baseball and bees; title: May Day; title: Legless horseman; title: No end in sight; title: Pieces of rainbow; title: Grateful hearts; title: Kitchen project; title: Rainbow for Christmas; title: New Year's social; title: Part three. 1865 : Going home.; title: Evening to remember; title: Soldier's disease; title: Richmond falls; title: Let 'em up easy; title: Laid to rest; title: Hearts at a crossroad; title: Violets in her hair; title: Going home; title: The homecoming; title: Family reunited; title: Healing time; title: The county fair; title: A lucky bolt of lightning; title: The homesteaders; title: Christmas jewels; title: Epilogue : Journal entry by Dr. Avery Junior Bennett; title: Notes from the author : What's true and what isn't