Flora Sandes left England to serve as a nurse in Belgrade, Serbia at the beginning of WWI. Within 3 years, she had traveled back and forth to the UK to raise funds for the Serbian Army, faced the tribulations of the great retreat of the Serbian Army through Albania, joined the Serbian Army, and returned with the Serbian forces to Monastir. She was wounded after the Serbian Army began their push north, and was ultimately awarded the rank of Senior Captain. She is to this day much beloved as a hero in Serbia!

At the onset of the Civil War, western North Carolina was notorious for having some of the bloodiest hostilities during and after the war. The area was fraught with fighting amounts Pro Union and Pro Confederate factions. The mountain war in North Carolina represented both the worst and the best of the South. This story is just one of the many tales of violence, humor, loyalty and vengeance, seen during the War Between the States.

In this chapter we discuss the life of Anne Lister aka Gentleman Jack , the 19th Century woman credited with the first same sex marriage. Her inquisitive mind and adventurous spirit set the stage for a life that would be anything but ordinary.