As a child growing up in the mid-1970s, Author Francis Carl was fascinated with knowing how deep his family roots were in the state of New York. After high school, Francis enlisted in the U.S Army and served a tour of duty overseas in Germany. After serving, Francis was honorable discharged in 1987. Francis’s family history seeds that his grandfather planted early in his life would gradually develop into a passion for doing more research work. It wasn’t until the early 1990s when Francis first started to pen his family’s amazing story.

Everything changed in 2010 when Francis and his nephew visited the National Archives in Washington DC. They were able to pull the pension file of David Carll, Francis’s great-great-grandfather. It was the missing piece for Francis. With this newinformation, Francis was able to verify stories passed down from generations, allowing Francis to begin his series, The Life and Times of David Carll. The first bookin the series, Footsteps of a Forgotten Soldier, which Francis co-authored in 2015, tells the story of David Carll prior to and during the Civil War. The second book in the series, WHO WE ARE, tells the story of David Carll after returning home from thewar and spans a period of 20 years. Francis continues to write and is currently working on his third book in the series, The Life and Times of David Carll.