The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come is a story based on the civil war. An orphan Chadwick Buford is found by an old Major in the mountains of Kentucky. Chad joins the Union Army against the South. The work depicts the chaos and confusion of an era when national and family loyalties were often in conflict.
This is a story of Kentucky, in a settlement known as "Kingdom Come." It is a life rude, semi-barbarous; but natural and honest, from which often springs the flower of civilization."Chad," the "little shepherd" did not know who he was nor whence he came—he had just wandered from door to door since early childhood, seeking shelter with kindly mountaineers who gladly fathered and mothered this waif about whom there was such a mystery—a charming waif who could play the banjo better that anyone else in the mountains.
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