Jacob's Ladder: A Story of Virginia During the Civil War - Softcover

McCaig, Donald

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9780393337105: Jacob's Ladder: A Story of Virginia During the Civil War

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ISBN 10: 0393337103 ISBN 13: 9780393337105

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2009

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Winner of the Michael Shaara Award for Excellence in Civil War Fiction

A civil war saga that resonates with the bitter glory and human shame of the Confederacy.

Jacob’s Ladder is a Civil War epic, a love story that pits the indomitable longing of the human heart against circumstances of racism, slavery, and war. Duncan Gatewood, seventeen and heir to the Gatewood plantation, falls in love with Maggie, a mulatto slave, who conceives a son, Jacob. Maggie and Jacob are sold south, and Duncan is packed off to the Virginia Military Institute. As Duncan fights for Robert E. Lee, Jesse―a Gatewood slave whose love for Maggie is unrequited―escapes north and enlists in Lincoln’s army, determined to confront his former masters, while Maggie finds herself living a life she never could have imagined as the wife of a blockade runner.

From the interlocked lives of masters and slaves, Donald McCaig conjures a passionate and richly textured story in the heart of America’s greatest war. The destiny of these three compelling characters connect a Vicksburg brothel to a Richmond salon, the nightmare of a Confederate hospital to the lurid hell of battlefields at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville.

Winner of the John Eston Cook Award
Winner of the Boyd Military Novel Award

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"To honor the imagination, then, I have chosen to honor the facts. The soldiers' names are, whenever possible, the names of real confederates (and colored troops) present the day I write about. It snowed when I say it did and was a full moon on the night of the full moon. In general, I have gone a little beyond that place where history accompanied me."--Donald McCaig

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Donald McCaig (1940―2018) was the author of many historical novels including Jacob’s Ladder, Rhett Butler’s People, and Canaan.

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PublisherW. W. Norton & Company
Publication date2009
ISBN 10 0393337103
ISBN 13 9780393337105
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