User:Issybooks

My professional name is Isabel's Studio and Art Studio Press. I use Wikipedia all the time! It is just great for me, because I primarily am a writer of Historical Novels. Right now I happen to be working a lot on General George Armstrong Custer. I have finished and published three history books of local (Aiken, South Carolina) including the History of Aiken County, the only county in South Carolina founded during Reconstruction, George Galphin, Indian Trader and Patriot, the history and genealogy of the primary Indian Trader based in Charleston, S.C., but also trading mainly in Georgia, where he was head trader among the Lower Creeks, the Cowetas. His main Creek Wife was Metawney, the Head Woman of Coweta. The third book is a collection of documents concerning freeing of slaves and proving that one had a free monther. These were primarily people claiming descent from free Indian women. Many were mulatto slaves freed by their white fathers. I have also published seven books of fictional including "Freedom's Price" the whole fictionalized tale of George Galphin, his seven 'wives', and nine children, all named in his legal will written about 1780. The second novel, "Father and Son at War" is the first person story told by a mulatto boy who joins the Confederate Army with his white father, and together they fight against the Union Armies while under the command of Robert E. Lee in the army of northern Viriginia. This story is based on the life and times of Samuel J. Lee, one of the mulatto legislators who founded Aiken County S.C. My seventh book is "Custer's Boys, death in the afternoon" an historical novel told from the point of view of a young man who is friends of George and Tom Custer in school, then becomes part of Custer's Cavalry both in the Civil war and afterward, though he does not die at Little Big Horn. I am presently (May, 2012) writing another historical novel, "Custer's Women, wife, prisoner, lovers, daughter.) I used to do professional art and teaching, with a bachelor's degree in Creative Writing from the University of South Carolina at Columbia.  After completion of that degree, I wrote and sole a novel "Lace" to Fawcette using the money to earn a Masters Degree in Theatre/Speech, also at U.S.C in Columbia.  I love history research, and always copy the articles from Wikipedia, keeping them filed in notebooks.