The Parting: A Story of West Point on the Eve of the Civil War
Richard Barlow Adams
ISBN: | 9781450231176 |
Publisher: | iUniverse |
Published: | 8 July, 2010 |
Format: | Paperback |
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The Parting: A Story of West Point on the Eve of the Civil War
Richard Barlow Adams
It is July 18, 1861 near Winchester, Virginia. The Civil War has begun, and Confederate Lieutenant John Pelham, formerly of the West Point Class of 1861, is about to confront his former classmates in the First Battle of Bull Run. The confident Pelham bears little resemblance to the seventeen-year-old who journeyed alone five years earlier from Jacksonville, Alabama, to West Point, New York, to enter the United States Military Academy. As the class begins its final year, Pelham meets Clara Bolton, a Philadelphian belle who captures his heart. In the months that follow, Pelham and his classmates witness the unraveling of the Union and the birth of the Confederacy, against the political backdrop of slavery and states' rights, the Democratic and Republican Parties, the fire-eaters of the South and the abolitionists of the North.
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