{"id":29,"date":"2015-04-13T01:35:29","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T01:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pgnagle.com\/wp2\/?page_id=29"},"modified":"2023-10-03T20:10:56","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T20:10:56","slug":"a-call-to-arms","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/pgnagle.com\/wp2\/?page_id=29","title":{"rendered":"A Call to Arms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span class=\"txt5\"><span class=\"bold\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-20\" src=\"http:\/\/pgnagle.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Nagle-ACalltoArms-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Nagle-ACalltoArms-200x300\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/>The <\/span><\/span><span class=\"txt5\"><span class=\"bold\">Civil War Adventures of Sarah Emma Edmonds, alias Private Frank Thompson<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>1861: as America erupts into civil war, Emma Edmonds is roused to such intense patriotism that she joins the Union army\u2026as a man.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Raised on a farm by a father who would have preferred a son, Emma can ride, shoot, and hunt as well as any man. She defies convention to become a soldier, an army nurse, even a spy. Dangers surround her, from enemy fire in battle to the risk of discovery by her friends, which would end in court-martial and disgrace.<\/p>\n<p>Always she seeks to reconcile the necessity of deception with her deeply-held values, but her greatest challenge arises when her friendship with a fellow-soldier becomes so close that she is tempted to confess the truth and risk everything for a chance at love.<\/p>\n<p><em>Based on the true adventures of Sarah Emma Edmonds, who served for two years in the 2nd Michigan Volunteers as Private Frank Thompson.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;P.G. Nagle also explores Sarah\/Frank\u2019s exploits in her excellent <em>Call to Arms<\/em>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">\u2015<em>Historical Novels Review<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/evennight.com\/wp\/product-category\/books-by-p-g-nagle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Buy directly from the publisher<\/a> (autographed copies available)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/books2read.com\/u\/3JVkP3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Buy at your favorite online bookseller<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Civil War Adventures of Sarah Emma Edmonds, alias Private Frank Thompson 1861: as America erupts into civil war, Emma Edmonds is roused to such intense patriotism that she joins the Union army\u2026as a man. Raised on a farm by a father who would have preferred a son, Emma can ride, shoot, and hunt as &#8230; <a title=\"A Call to Arms\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/pgnagle.com\/wp2\/?page_id=29\" aria-label=\"Read more about A Call to Arms\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":14,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-29","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pgnagle.com\/wp2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pgnagle.com\/wp2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pgnagle.com\/wp2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pgnagle.com\/wp2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pgnagle.com\/wp2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/pgnagle.com\/wp2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216,"href":"http:\/\/pgnagle.com\/wp2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29\/revisions\/216"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pgnagle.com\/wp2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pgnagle.com\/wp2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}