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Bound to the Union - Couverture rigide

Matthews, Janet

 
9781425970710: Bound to the Union
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1425970710 ISBN 13 : 9781425970710
Editeur : AuthorHouse, 2009

Synopsis

It is December 10th, 1862. Leigh Calvert, along with her precocious twelve year old cousin Thomas, says goodbye to her father, Colonel William Calvert of Calvert's Legion as he goes off to join General Lee's army entrenched above the town of Fredericksburg, barely three miles distant. Across the Rappahannock River lay Union General Burnside's Grand Army ready to strike but little does Colonel Calvert realize that his daughter's sympathies are not for the Army of Northern Virginia but with the Union to which she long ago pledged her faith and when, several days later, she finds a badly wounded Union Officer dying in her barn, she must struggle to keep his presence a secret from her father, his returning men and her Yankee-hating family who have just refugeed from Fredericksburg to winter at Oak Field, the Calvert homestead. But the unknown officer has a story of his own to tell which comprises much of the story. Sent home to England from an Indian army post at the age of twelve by his father, James Merrill has lived a lonely and loveless life at school and at the home of his father's aristocratic relatives in London. What twists of fate bring him to the Calvert home makes for one of the most unusual stories every told of the Civil War.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

It is December 10th, 1862. Leigh Calvert, along with her precocious twelve year old cousin Thomas, says goodbye to her father, Colonel William Calvert of Calvert's Legion as he goes off to join General Lee's army entrenched above the town of Fredericksburg, barely three miles distant. Across the Rappahannock River lay Union General Burnside's Grand Army ready to strike but little does Colonel Calvert realize that his daughter's sympathies are not for the Army of Northern Virginia but with the Union to which she long ago pledged her faith and when, several days later, she finds a badly wounded Union Officer dying in her barn, she must struggle to keep his presence a secret from her father, his returning men and her Yankee-hating family who have just refugeed from Fredericksburg to winter at Oak Field, the Calvert homestead. But the unknown officer has a story of his own to tell which comprises much of the story. Sent home to England from an Indian army post at the age of twelve by his father, James Merrill has lived a lonely and loveless life at school and at the home of his father's aristocratic relatives in London. What twists of fate bring him to the Calvert home makes for one of the most unusual stories every told of the Civil War.

Biographie de l'auteur

This is my first novel which I began in 1992, finished in 1997 and have been fine tuning ever sense. It is one of three historical novels still being completed; one about WWII and one which takes place in tenth century Europe and China. Throughout my life I have been a consummate reader of a wide variety of genre's but particularly biographies and history (particularly military history) as has lead to my novel about events in the lives of my characters leading up to the Battle of Fredericksburg. My story was inspired by many impressions and historical characters, among them by the lives of three brothers who fought for the Union during the war and who were most heartrendingly influential and to whom I am dedicating my story. I was a member of a small writer's group in the 1990's and traveled widely in Canada and the United States during my years of Civil Service with the US Navy and Naval Reserve; and to Germany, Austria and Switzerland while I was writing and researching my novel of WWII. I am now retired and ready to complete my writing projects. I was born in Long Beach, California and have lived in Ventura County all my life. Married with no children, I hold an Associate Degree in Liberal Studies.

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Éditeur
AuthorHouse
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1425970710
ISBN 13 
9781425970710
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
344
Coordonnées du fabricant
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