For those of you interested in the book, here’s a chance to get a little preview.

I’ll be speaking at Fort Negley in Nashville on Tuesday, September 27 at the meeting of the Sons of Union Veterans. There will be a business meeting beginning at 6 PM, followed by my presentation at 7 sharp…or as sharp as my notoriously wonky PowerPoint presentations ever go.

The subject will be some of the little-known nastiness that took place at the end of the Civil War in the winter of 1865, when a mixture of bored troops, criminal elements, whiskey, women, and resentful citizens came together in a lethal mix that unleashed one of the city’s worst crime waves before the twentieth century.

The program is free and open to the public, so come on out, say hello, and get a big welcome from the friendly folk of postwar Nashville!

Bad Boys, Bad Boys…Whatcha gonna do?