Through Fire by Major Walter Wilmot
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May 2022
Originally published November 1, 1884
Dime novel, Civil War
Author: Major Walter Wilmot
ePublished by
May 2022
Originally published November 1, 1884
Dime novel, Civil War
Author: Major Walter Wilmot
Number 112 in “The War Library: Original Stories of Adventure in the War for the Union,” a series of dime novels that are set in the midst of actual Civil War battles.
Through Fire; or, Battling for the Union: A Story of the Last Campaign in Virginia, while it occurs during the Union Army’s march toward Petersburg and Richmond, Virginia, (which effectively ended the American Civil War,) jumps out of the series’ usual genre a bit with a rather macabre story about three Union officers spending the night in a seemingly abandoned cabin, who hear strange noises and find two buried bodies under the hearthstone, clearly victims of murder. Oh, and there is an extra finger buried with them. Not your usual Civil War fare.
The listed author, “Major Walter Wilmot,” was a pen name used by Edward W. Dawson, of whom little is known except that he wrote many novels under various pseudonyms.
Through Fire; or, Battling for the Union: A Story of the Last Campaign in Virginia, while it occurs during the Union Army’s march toward Petersburg and Richmond, Virginia, (which effectively ended the American Civil War,) jumps out of the series’ usual genre a bit with a rather macabre story about three Union officers spending the night in a seemingly abandoned cabin, who hear strange noises and find two buried bodies under the hearthstone, clearly victims of murder. Oh, and there is an extra finger buried with them. Not your usual Civil War fare.
The listed author, “Major Walter Wilmot,” was a pen name used by Edward W. Dawson, of whom little is known except that he wrote many novels under various pseudonyms.