Your Dear Husband Until Death Paperback – February 5, 2026

Deep within the hills of the future state of West Virginia in Ritchie County arises the real-life story of one young couple's desperate journey through the American Civil War. Based on surviving Mason Family letters written 1862 to 1864 and passed down five generations, relive the dangerous military campaigns waged by Volunteer Fourteenth Infantryman Company F Private Thomas Mason. In his own words, follow Thomas' desperate two-year quest in securing farm help for his childless wife Pleasy, voting on his West Virginia State's founding, enduring the monotonous Camp life in the Eastern Panhandle, dealing with his wife's loneliness, and keeping his farm afloat from a distance. Experience first-hand Thomas' military movements: attend a huge Military Rally in Parkersburg W.Va., board a steamboat bound for a March on Cloyd Mountain, cross the Greenbrier River after a burned-out bridge impedes their pursuit of Rebels, trudge over Big Sewell Mountain with no food, tear up and heat railroad track near Lexington Virginia, track Rebels after they slip away from Gettysburg, pursue Confederates into Washington County, Maryland, and scale Massanutten Mountain in the Shenandoah Valley in hopes of taking the signal station. Join the spiritual journey thrust upon one young couple as they find themselves trapped in the ugly web of War. Take the ride of your life and sense the true sacrifice so many before us made, both men and women, willingly enduring horrendous hardships to see that this Great Nation of ours, The United States of America, survived. Read more