Jo Ann “She Rose from the Ashes”

Douglas Lloyd, Author of the newly released Family Saga, ?JO ANN She Rose from The Ashes'. A literary account of an African American Woman's journey, disguised as a man in the Union Army. Over 250 women enlisted and fought in the civil war for both the Union and Confederacy as man, now comes the story of the only black women to do so!Follow Jo Ann Douglass, the first of the mixed heritage as she shares adventures with us as a war hero, feminist, Romantic Heroine, and business woman who happens to become the first black woman of wealth, all the while harboring a viscous secret.