new non-fiction book from Salem author

(note: I just interviewed Salem writer/historian John Hildrebrand about his new book. Here's the text that set up the audio interview. Available by Friday at wvtf.org under "Studio Virginia." Nice guy... Civil War and history-philes, give it a whirl...)

Retired civil ENGINEER JOHN HILDREBRAND HAS USED HIS FREE TIME IN RECENT YEARS TO RESEARCH AND RECORD LITTLE KNOWN ASPECTS OF THOSE WHO SETTLED WEST OF THE BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS IN VIRGINIA…NOW THE SALEM RESIDENT HAS PUBLISHED “THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JOHN BROWN BALDWIN: 1820 TO 1873”, ABOUT A CIVIL-WAR ERA STATE LEGISLATOR, LAWYER AND CIVIC LEADER IN AUGUSTA county, A MAN WHO ONCE HAD THE EAR OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN AND THEN BECAME INVOLVED TO MAKE RECONSTRUCTION AND READMITTANCE TO THE UNION AN EASIER PILL TO SWALLOW. BALDWIN WAS A PROMINENT AUGUST COUNTY POLITICIAN AND CIVIC LEADER BEFORE, DURING AND AFTER THE CIVIL WAR :

THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JOHN BROWN BALDWIN: 1820-1873, FROM AUTHOR JOHN HILDEBRAND, IS AVAILABLE AT Ram's Head Bookstore IN ROANOKE, the Bookery ON North Nelson Street in Lexington. YOU CAN ALSO FIND IT THROUGHT THE Salem Historical Society, AT THE History Museum of Western Virginia IN ROANOKE AND THROUGH THE Augusta County Historical Society in Staunton.