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A new book chronicles the wartime diaries and mis-adventures of Ephraim Miner, a Western Pennsylvania farmer boy injured at the Battle of Fredericksburg, and who spent more than 2.5 years languishing in the Armys ill-prepared health care and convalescent system. Suffering from survivor guilt, he achieved a sort of spiritual redemption as an old man when honored by his community as a treasured Civil War veteran.

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Walks readers through Ephraim's experience... Ephraim is real to the reader. ---America's Civil War. One will not find stirring accounts of battle, but entries that describe day-to-day life of a young man who continued to serve his country despite being hobbled by illness and a battle injury... ---Western Pennsylvania History magazine, Senator John Heinz History Center, an associate of the Smithsonian Institution. . .. hardly a page where there are not one or more illustrations, such as photographs, period woodcuts or reproductions of Ephraim Miner's diaries. ---Civil War News.

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Mark A. Miner is an award-winning entrepreneur, writer, editor and publisher who has had a lifelong interest in the Civil War. With a journalism degree from West Virginia University, he has built a professional career spanning nearly three decades. In 2005, he was named to the Renaissance Hall of Fame of the prestigious Public Relations Society of America for his contributions in the fields of law, engineering and accounting. He is CEO of Mark Miner Communications, LLC, a corporate communications consultancy serving professional service firm. He also is CEO of Minerd.com Publishing, LLC, publisher of Well At This Time: The Civil War Diaries and Army Convalescence Saga of Farmboy Ephraim Miner, and of Forged in Steel: The Seven Time-Tested Leadership Principles Practiced by the Pittsburgh Steelers. In the community, he is a board director of the American Cancer Society in Pittsburgh, co-chair of the board of trustees of the Beaver (PA) Area Heritage Museum and president of Malin Bergquist Charities, Inc. He also is a regular guest lecturer at the West Virginia University College of Business and Economics. Since 1995, he has been president of the national Minerd-Minard-Miner-Minor Reunion, and since 2000 has been webmaster of Minerd.com, named by Family Tree Magazine as one of the top 10 family websites in the nation. He and his wife Liz reside in Beaver, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh.

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