Sons of War

Sons of War is an epic tale of a family who immigrated to America from Wurttemberg, Germany in the 1770s.

In 1859, the descendants lived on a one-hundred-acre farm in Moniteau County, Missouri. In the early 1860s, the nation was divided by the Civil War and three sons of the family joined the Missouri 26th Infantry. Their triumphs and hardships were shared with family and loved ones through letters from the battlefields of a war-torn nation.

Sons of War gives insight into what it was like to be a pioneer – their struggles, their successes and failures, their abiding religious convictions – and their dedication in fighting for what they believed.

About the Author: Carl J. Barger, a retired public-school superintendent, lives in Conway, Arkansas. He is the author of Swords and Plowshares; Mamie, An Ozark Mountain Girl of Courage; Cleburne County and Its People, Vol. I and II; Dark Clouds over Alabama and its sequel, Blues Skies of El Dorado; and Arkansas Hillbilly, One Man’s Memoir of a Blessed Life. “I love to write about the Civil War. I was inspired to write this novel because of my grandfather James A. Barger’s Civil War record. I have all of his battle records.”