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Manassas - The Civil War Battle Series Vol. 1

By: Cumberland House Publishing

Type: Novel - Softcover

Product Line: Historical Books (Cumberland House Publishing)


Product Info

Title
Manassas - The Civil War Battle Series Vol. 1
Category
Author
James Reasoner
Publish Year
2001
Pages
336
Dimensions
6x9x1"
NKG Part #
2148174811
Type
Novel - Softcover

Description

Manassas, by James Reasoner, is the first novel in The Civil War Battles series based on the Brannon family of Culpeper County, Virginia. This initial volume describes the mood in the South prior to the outbreak of hostilities and follows one of the Brannon sons into the army and onto the scene of the first major battle of the war.

As the Civil War sweeps across the country, it finds the most wayfaring member of the Brannon family of Culpeper County, Virginia, working as a wharf rat at the Mississippi River port of New Madrid, Missouri. Caught up in a bar fight he tried to avoid, Cory Brannon is rescued by Capt. Zeke Farrell of the riverboat Missouri Zephyr. Later, when a small party of men attempts to burn the boat, Cory sounds a timely warning and finds himself the newest member of the crew. The Zephyr makes the journey from New Madrid to New Orleans in late 1861.