The Long Journey Home Author:Russ Aboard a merchant vessel with a secret late evening departure, James Griffin Hughes left behind his English pursuers, his Irish homeland and his beloved family, only to arrive in America of promise a few months before the outbreak of the Civil War. Thinking its his duty as a new American citizen, he joined the Army of the Potomac for what was t... more »outed to be a short engagement. His journey through the battlegrounds and devastation of war to families and to the land brought him to a new home and the beginnings of a new beloved family in Marietta, Georgia.« less