Leander

by Robert and Mary Lee Scalf

This is the story of part of the Civil War as seen through the eyes of a young man who served as a volunteer in the Union army. Leander Cocker may have been any seventeen year old soldier at the outbreak of hostilities, but his head wound at Gettysburg resulted in the loss of his ability to speak coherently. He was a silent witness to many events as several mysteries began to unravel in the oil boom town where he resided.

He saw the return from a faked death of his friend, Wes, a man who had fought for the Confederacy and discovered the wounded Leander at Gettysburg. He wondered about the origin of his black friend, Ab, and the connection Ab may have had to the middle-aged Elsa, but the disabled soldier was able to help his new friends uncover a conspiracy that threatened the welfare of most of them.

This novel of war and reconstruction has a mystery concealed within a second mystery. It tells of a period when the true hard feelings over the Civil War developed between the two sections. It also recreates authentic figures in mid-nineteenth century