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Ben Montgomery’s ‘A Shot in the Moonlight’ an urgent piece of history Colette Bancroft, Tampa Bay Times © Little, Brown Spark/TNS The cover of A Shot in the Moonlight: How a Freed Slave and a Confederate Soldier Fought for Justice in the Jim Crow South by Ben Montgomery. A Shot in the Moonlight: How a Freed Slave and a Confederate Soldier Fought for Justice in the Jim Crow South by Ben Montgomery; Little, Brown Spark (304 pages, $28) A Shot in the Moonlight tells an amazing, compelling true story that was long lost to history but that could not be more timely.

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