Mary Jane’s War

- Mary Janes War by Joe B. Roles is a Civil War novel based upon a true story. Mary Jane’s husband died from wounds received in the Battle of New Market. She took a pair of mules and a wagon 120 miles across a river, across a mountain and among enemy troops during the winter of 1865 to recover her husbands remains in Lexington, Virginia to bring them home to Monroe County, West Virginia for burial.