Ben Bones and the Uncivil War: The Battle of Cloyd’s Mountain

Ben Bones, Genealogical Consultant and Articulator of Family Skeletons, has been contacted to trace and claim a Confederate soldier’s Civil War pension and an expected 150 years of accrued interest.Sounds like another simple research job. But it’s never as simple on the inside as it looks from the outside.There are difficulties in the family: clashing interests, abrasive egos, a sudden murder.And Ben is tangled in the middle once again.As Ben likes to say, A genealogist’s life is fraught with danger.