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The Cane in the Field

From Shiloh to Zion and Back Again

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The Cane in the Field

By: Martin Francom
Narrated by: Joshua David Ling
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A Novel of War, Forgiveness, and the Long Road Home

In the spring of 1865, Confederate cavalryman Virgil Kane is released from a Union prison carrying two things: his dead brother's belongings and a secret that could destroy his family.

Unable to face his grieving parents with the truth—about his brother’s death—Virgil heads west instead of home. Joining a Mormon wagon train bound for Utah Territory, he crosses two thousand miles of prairie and mountain, learning the blacksmith's trade from unlikely friends and slowly hammering himself into someone capable of keeping the promises he made.

But the real journey isn't across the continent. It's back to Tennessee, where Virgil must finally deliver Samuel's things, face the man who killed him, and discover whether forgiveness is possible when the wounds are too deep for words.

From the battlefields of Shiloh to the forge fires of Utah, from the prison camps of the North to the rebuilt farms of Reconstruction Tennessee, THE CANE IN THE FIELD is an epic story of one man's search for home—not the place he left behind, but the one he must build from the broken pieces of war.

©2025 Martin Francom (P)2026 Martin Francom
Historical Historical Fiction United States World Literature Mormon War
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