A Stranger on My Land by Sandra Merville Hart

When Adam’s condition worsens, Carrie knows a Union surgeon is needed to save his life. Even though Carrie’s father fights for the Confederacy in far-off Virginia, her feelings for the handsome young soldier begin to blossom into love. It’s not long until his gratitude and teasing manner spark a friendship between the young couple. Adam’s friendship with Jay softens her heart toward him. Carrie refuses, but cannot remove the bullets.

Though Carrie is reluctant to take Adam to their cave where her family hides their livestock from both armies, she cannot turn her back on him.īut her Aunt Lavinia, bitter over what Yankees have done to their land, urges Carrie to allow Adam to die. I thanked my trouper husband for posing as an unconscious soldier and used what I’d learned to write the scene.Ī Stranger on My Land ~ a Civil War Romance by Sandra Merville HartĬarrie and her little brother, Jay, find a wounded soldier on their land after a battle which later became known as “The Battle above the Clouds.” Adam, a Union soldier, has been shot twice in the arm. This experiment convinced me to come up with another plan to get Adam inside the cabin. I tugged so hard that I ended up on my backside in a very undignified manner. Then I tried ever way imaginable to lift or tug him forward. He lay down on the floor and pretended to be unconscious. I enlisted my husband’s help in figuring out this scene. Carrie has to move him out of the freezing weather and inside the cabin, but how does she accomplish this? He’s taller and heavier than the petite Carrie. My digging leads me down the usual paths of nonfiction books about the subject, novels written during the time period, and local museums.įor every novel I’ve written, the path leads to new discoveries of little-known facts relating to our history, but there’s always something in the action of the story that eludes me.Īdam, a wounded Union soldier and the hero of our story, trips over a tree root and falls unconscious in one of the scenes in A Stranger On My Land. Welcome back to Wednesday Writers, Sandra.

She’s going to share a humorous story about researching information for her Civil War historical inspirational romance A Stranger on My Land. Today I’m welcoming author Sandra Merville Hart to Wednesday Writers.

A Stranger on My Land by Sandra Merville Hart