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The Field of Justice: Moonshine and Murder In North Georgia

by William A. Thomas

A family feud in 1887 North Georgia

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A family feud in 1887 North Georgia

Set in the mountain community of Towns County, Georgia, in 1887, the novel brings together James Godard, an older man with a troubled past, and Tilmon Justice, a young husband and father working to support his family. A disputed land boundary and their shared history with moonshine draw the two men into a feud whose consequences reach beyond them to the surrounding community. The account is based on newspaper articles and a handwritten court transcript from the murder trial, then retold through the imagination of Godard’s descendant, William A. Thomas. The book connects a documented family-history episode with a fictionalized portrait of an insular Appalachian community.

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Readers interested in historical fiction set in 19th-century Appalachia.
Readers drawn to stories involving family history, land disputes, and moonshine.
Readers interested in fiction shaped by newspaper and court-record sources.

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Family historyLand and boundary disputesMoonshineCommunity and conflictHistorical fiction

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CAN'T DO WHAT YOU DIDN'T. CAN'T UNDO WHAT YOU DID.

1887: JAMES GODARD, A CANTANKEROUS OLD MAN, had fled from his past to live far up in the mountains of Towns County, Georgia. Tilmon Justice was a young man working hard to provide for his growing family in the insular Appalachian world, but he had the odds stacked against him. What these two men had in common was a land boundary-and a history with moonshine. Their feud comes to a violent and inevitable conclusion, tearing apart families in a small community.

This story has been documented in newspaper articles and in the handwritten court transcript from the murder trial-now retold for us here through the imagination of one of the character's descendants.

Dr. William Akins Thomas, Jr., is the great-great-great grandson of James Bennett Godard. His genealogical research, vivid imagination, and engaging writing have brought to life another tale from the pages of his own family history.

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