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Winner of the Michael Shaara Award for Excellence in Civil War Fiction, the John Eston Cook Award, and the Boyd Military Novel Award: One of the best Civil War novels . . . McCaigs prose is stunning . . . stunning.?Houston Chronicle Duncan Gatewood, seventeen and heir to Gatewood Plantation, falls in love with Maggie, a mulatto slave, who conceives a son, Jacob. Maggie and Jacob can be purchased south, and Duncan is packed off to the Virginia Military Institute?he will eventually fight for Robert E. Lee. Another Gatewood slave, Jesse?whose love for Maggie is unrequited?escapes to find her. Jesse finds his freedom and enlists in Mr. Lincolns army; in time he will confront his former masters.
In his award-winning novel of the interlocked lives of masters and slaves, Donald McCaig conjures a passionate and richly textured story in the heart of Americas greatest war.
