Blount is the vice president of Surety Land Title, Inc. in Mobile, Alabama, but studied and taught history, and continues to be a Civil War enthusiast. Modern historians generally characterize a May 1864 week-long conflict along an eight-to-ten mile front in the Georgia wilderness as the three battles of New Hope Church, Pickett's Mill, and Dallas, he explains, but he follows the lead of contemporaries by considering it a single battle. His topics include the road to New Hope Church, the very woods seemed to moan and groan, the strong fine soul within, the criminal blunder, the most trying time, a great blue carpet, and we knew we had met them in vain. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)