Going Home: The Short Life and Sudden Death of the U.S. Army Transport Steamer 'General Lyon'

PETER HOLMAN was born in Walthamstow, England and educated at Dover Grammar School for Boys and at the South African Theological Seminary. He has worked in the U.K. as a Post Office telegraphist and telex operator, and in the U.S.A. for thirty years in employment counselling, selling and marketing major medical diagnostic equipment, shipping radioactive materials, and the sales and service of personal lines insurance. A student of the War of the Rebellion for over half a century, he is currently retired and residing in Bloemfontein, South Africa where he and his wife, Lynn are volunteers at a Basotho children's home. Fiction: (as Peter Brian): - Snooks, North and South (1861-63) - Snooks; The Presidents' Man (1863-65) Articles: - The (Secret) Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade - An Uncivil War; General George G. Meade & The Pennsylvania Reserves in Northern Virginia, October 9 to December 6, 1861 - A Brief Sketch of the Life and Death of Lt. Simeon W. Cummings