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  • “The Senior Army Instructor: The Paul Tyler Sage Begins, A New Novel” – Available now in Hardcover, Paperback, Kendel, and LARGE PRINT now available at AMAZON

    As of this morning, the notebook is available on all of the Amazon formats. It’s available on eBook through kindle, or hardcover, paperback, or a large print version paperback. This new book is a prequel of the advisor series and it begins with Colonel tyler’s retirement from the US army and his hiring as a… →

  • Garrison Commander, Captain Charles Leib!

    A Short Story Captain Charles Leib Captain Leib took a seat in the outer office and waited for Lieutenant Goff to summons him into the office of the Clarksburg Garrison commander, Colonel Stanley “Ah, Good morning Captain Leib. Thank you for coming to my office so quickly. I’m sorry to have interrupted your morning routine.… →

  • Unhorsing the “Wizard of the Saddle”

    This short story is based on an actual event at the end of the US Civil War involving the notorious “Wizard of the Saddle,” General Nathan Bedford Forrest,  and Sergeant Hugh Longstaff. It involved a small detachment of cavalry soldiers from the First Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry Regiment and a large detachment of General Forrest’s Cavalry… →

  • The Saga of Lieutenant Lancaster – Part Two

    The Saga of Lieutenant Lancaster Part Two In our previous post we read about the terrible news that the men of the Second Wisconsin Veteran Volunteer Cavalry received in April of 1865. Rather than going home they were being forced to remain in the US Army. Since officers could resign their commissions without regards to… →

  • The Harrowing Adventure of Captain Charles Leib

    To My readers: this short story is based upon my book “The Most Hated Man in Clarksburg” I hope that you enjoy the story! By Peter Taylor It was April 1862, and it had been an exhausting week in Washington DC. Captain Charles Leib had been ordered to Washington City to appear before a congressional… →

  • Meeting My ‘Muse’

    As I mentioned in a previous blog I had never written a novel before. I was trained as a military historian, and my degrees are in history and political science. And while I was an avid reader I had never really thought about writing anything other than documented history. When I wrote my book ,”… →

  • Love and War

    It was a sad moving day for Colonel Paul Tyler, US Army retired. After the loss of his beloved wife, Katherine, to breast cancer, he had decided to sell their large five-bedroom house in Tilden, Indiana and move to a two-bedroom condo in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. As they were clearing out the house… →

  • The Mule Train, A Civil War Short Story

    While this is written as a short story it is based on actual events that happened during the Civil War in western Virginia. The story is taken from my book, “The Most Hated Man in Clarksburg” It was mid-June 1861 and Union Captain Charles Leib, the Assistant Quartermaster General from Clarksburg, Virginia was in Parkersburg,… →

  • A Horse of Many Colors

    In one of my early Blogs, I discussed some of the unpublished writing that I’ve done over the years. This is one of the interesting stories that came from the Regimental History of the Second Wisconsin Veteran Volunteer Cavalry, “Washburn’s Own”. I’ve rewritten the story as a piece of historical fiction for my readers. The… →

  • The Ambush at Nhon-Nhin-Three

    Good morning and Happy 4th of July! Note to my readers. Sometimes a good story just doesn’t seem to fit in a novel. It either adds to many pages to a chapter or requires the reader to shift gears to understand the placement of the story. This happened to be one of those forgotten stories.… →

  • The Ambush at Nhon-Nhin-Three; Command Decision (Part Two)

    Previously, we found Second Lieutenant, Sergeant First Class Bennett and a platoon of South Vietnamese soldiers outside the small village of Nhon-Nhin-Three preparing to ambush a group of high-ranking Việt Cộng political cadre and their guards. Due to an unforeseen delay, they had gotten into position after the VC had entered the village. They now… →

  • Sci-Fi Adventures

    Readers, I’m going to switch gears this week for a change. As you know most of my book’s deal with the Vietnam War, The Advisor Series, or with history, mostly history of Harrison County West Virginia, but I’ve edited and written some science fiction books with my good friend Navy Captain Chuck Neighbors. This week… →

  • “The Most Hated Man in Clarksburg”; historical Civil War fiction

    So how could someone be called or become the most hated man in a small town like Clarksburg Virginia? What could cause a man from Philadelphia, a doctor, a newspaper editor, and a friend of Abraham Lincoln to be so reviled in a small town? The answer to this question is to be found in… →

  • The Katy Sterling Saga (Pete Taylor Editor/Author)

    First and foremost, I am NOT a Science-fiction writer! But my longtime friend Chuck Neighbors is! I’ve known Chuck for over thirty years, and our families have grown together. I first met Chuck when I was assigned as an Army officer to the War Room of the old US Atlantic Command in Norfolk Virginia. During… →

  • Enlisted Training

    I did my basic combat training at Fort Benning, Georgia, “Home of the Infantry”. Since I was on an Officer Candidate School (OCS) track I was appointed as the “Platoon Goon”, or acting Platoon Sergeant. My job was basically to prepare my 44-man platoon for formations and to attempt to march them to and from… →

  • Was it Worth It? Why Was I There?

    This is a question that is well over sixty years old. Was my going to Vietnam worth it and was it worth the blood and treasure of the United States. Guenter Lewy, a German-born American author and political scientist estimated 1,353,000 total deaths in North and South Vietnam during the period 1965–1974 in which the U.S. was most… →

  • Colonel David “Hack” Hackworth, 44th Special Tactical Zone Commander

    Another senior officer mentioned several times in my books is Colonel David Hackworth. Colonel David ‘the Hack’ Hackworth, like John Paul Vann, was a controversial figure during the Vietnam War and had a military career spanning World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam Conflict. David Hackworth joined the US Merchant Marine at the… →