This is the saga of S. Scott Anderson’s Roane County Tennessee ancestors during the Civil War. Inspired by actual events this historic novel will connect you with those men and women of the Scott family in East Tennessee who lived the hell that was the American Civil War. There were six Scott brothers and a nephew; four fought for the Union, two fought for the Confederacy, with all but one surviving the conflict.

This chronicle covers the war through the experiences of those brothers, as well as their families left in East Tennessee; placing you into the battles, the prisons, the persecution, the hardship of the time, all inspired from pension records, family letters, Bibles and site visits. None of us were at Franklin, Belle Isle, Vicksburg, or Cahaba. While much has been written regarding the historic structure of those events, this work is not a chronicle in that vein. The Scott Boys more represents an attempt to convey that sense of emotion, of their feelings, in those moments. Anderson endeavored to construct the events from the perspectives of the individuals in his family who would have lived that experience.