Length5h 13m
About this audiobook
Elias Cane comes home from the war in the spring of 1864 — sixteen years old, one arm in a sling, a shattered shoulder that will never fully heal, and a discharge certificate. He comes home to his family's farm in the hill country of southern Ohio, to a father who has not spoken about his oldest son's death in two years, and to a county that is slowly discovering what the war has cost it.
What he finds is that a war contractor named Cornelius Aldrich has been waiting for the cost to come due.
Aldrich supplied the Army with boots that were not leather, blankets that fell apart in rain, tin mess kits that contaminated food. The men who wore and carried these things are either dead or home with the consequences. The money is in Aldrich's account. And now he is spending it — buying up the farm notes held by the families of the men who didn't come back, calling them at fraudulent terms, and using a compliant county surveyor to move boundary lines on properties headed to foreclosure.
Audiobook details
GenreMystery and Thriller
Length5 hrs 13 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 4, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Making of Elias Cane, Book 2
2Jim Head
3A Note on Scioto County
4Prologue: The River
5March 1864
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6Part One: The Farm
7Chapter One: Scioto County
8The Shoulder
9Chapter Two: The Cane Farm
10Thomas Cane
11The Community
12June, 1864: The Mill
13Chapter Three: Cornelius Aldrich
14September, 1864: The Recorder
15Hannah Hollowell
16August, 1864: The Cemetery
17Chapter Four: What the Boots Were Made Of
18October, 1864: Hannah Again
19Chapter Five: What the Deed Said
20Graves
21A Note on War Contractor Fraud
22A Note on Promissory Notes and Ohio Law
23Part Two: The Account
24Chapter Six: The Mallory Farm
25The Letter
26The Pattern Becomes Clear
27Chapter Seven: Inventory
28The Other Families
29Chapter Eight: Captain Reese
30The Surveyor's Work
31A Note on the Army Inspector General
32Part Three: The War Ends
33Chapter Nine: April 1865
34April, 1865: Lee Surrenders
35What Reese Could and Couldn't Do
36Chapter Ten: The Shape of the Land
37Aldrich After the Inquiry
38Prentiss
39June, 1865: What Moore Said
40Chapter Eleven: Captain Reese
41The Inquiry Deepens
42Chapter Twelve: What Aldrich Did
43The Lumber Angle
44November, 1865: The Assessment Paid
45The Church After the War
46After the War
47The Visit to Clary
48Part Four: The Reckoning
49Chapter Thirteen: What Was Saved
50December, 1865: Graves Again
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