About Rebel Correspondent
Distinguished Favorite, United States History – 2023 Independent Press Awards
Rebel Correspondent is the true story of a young man who joined the Confederate Army days after his eighteenth birthday and served bravely until the war ended. Wounded twice, he emerged a changed person. But he wasn’t just a returning veteran; he was also a writer.
At the beginning of the twentieth century, Arba F. Shaw was a fifty-seven-year-old farmer. On a chilly December day in 1901, he put pen to paper to write his memories of being a Rebel Private in the 4th Georgia Cavalry (Avery), C.S.A. He completed writing his account in February 1902. His local newspaper, the Walker County Messenger, in Lafayette, Georgia, published his account in more than fifty articles from 1901 to 1903.
Then it was all but forgotten. Until Now.
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Author Bio:
Steve Procko never thought of himself as a Confederate history buff, let alone a biographer. He does love history; however, he particularly loves learning about the small, everyday events in the lives of little-known people and the small towns they lived in.
A documentarian and photographer, Steve was sleuthing for stories for a series he has developed—the Emmy-nominated series entitled “There’s History Around Every Bend” currently available on YouTube—when he came across the writings of Private Arba F. Shaw.
The down-to-earth accounts of the everyday life of a lowly private struggling to survive one of the greatest events in American history fascinated Steve. As he read the series of articles, mostly unread since they were published in a small, North Georgia newspaper between 1901 and 1903, he began to realize that this was a remarkable cache of history.
He opened a commercial film production company—Steve Procko Productions, LLC—in 1984. His Emmy award-winning financial literacy program entitled “Talkin’ Money Minutes” is available on more than 100 public television stations nationwide. His company has also won three additional Emmys as well as several Addy Awards, Telly Awards, and two Promax awards.
A native of Florida, Steve, along with his wife, Lauren, and their dog, Rigby, splits his time between a mountain log cabin nestled next to Stanley Creek near the town of Blue Ridge, Georgia, and a home in Ocala, Florida.