Muleskinner with the Marine Brigade

The story of Alpheus Appenheimer, a young Illinois farmer
who left his fiance, his widowed mother and his farm
to go off to war on the Western Front. The year was
1917, he was 26, and America had just declared war on
Germany. There was never any doubt that he would go,
but you can't just walk away from a farm in the midst
of spring planting. The spring work would have to be
completed and arrangements made for the running of
the farm in his absence.

And then, hardest of all-- announcing to the two women
in his life that he was about to leave and wouldn't
be back until after the war.

For a fuller description of the book's contents, you can read the 'Introduction' on the Monongahela Books blog.