The Battlefield Journals of James Allen Davis is the story of a young man on the Ohio frontier who comes of age as the country is being torn apart by Civil War. 

Mr. Davis joins the Union Army as a scout in General U.S. Grant’s 1862 Tennessee campaign and is wounded at Shiloh. He leaves the army to become a special artist correspondent for a New York illustrated newspaper, covering the battles of the Army of the Potomac from the Peninsula Campaign to Lee’s surrender at Appomattox. 

Along the way he falls in love with a beautiful Pinkerton agent and tries his best to find meaning in the brutal realities of the most traumatic conflict in our nation’s history.

Mr. Beauchet’s Circuitous Quest for Distinction follows the exploits of a Louisiana sugar planter’s son who survives the horrors of the Mexican War to become a successful New Orleans businessman in the years leading up to the War Between The States. 

After the secession of the Southern States, his friend Jefferson Davis appoints him special envoy for the Confederate government to the royal courts of Spain, France, and imperial Mexico. 

Mr. Beauchet embarks on a series of breathtaking adventures that take him across three continents in search of love and belonging in a perilous, war-torn world.