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Following the defeat of Confederate forces at Chattanooga, the battered Rebel army, including a bitter Cory Brannon, retreats slowly toward Atlanta. A large Union army is marching to Savannah, laying waste to everything it passes. Meanwhile, the Brannon family farm in Virginia is now behind enemy lines, and to everyone's surprise, Cordelia is courted by a Union officer, a Yankee she finds herself unable to hate. As despair grips the Confederacy, the...
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With the conclusion of the ten-volume saga, the multiple strands of the story are woven toward their resolution. Members of the Brannon family are involved in battles across the country, from the Deep South to the Dakota Territory. In the spring of 1865 the war reaches its climax at a crossroads in Virginia known as Appomattox. Subsequently, the war in brought home to the Brannon farm when carpetbaggers move into the South and they must decide whether...
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Will and Mac, the two eldest Brannon sons, are in the ranks of the Stonewall Brigade and Jebb Stuart's cavalry. A Short bivouac allows them to visit the family farm for some rest and recuperation from the fighting. Thee they note that the romance between their mother and a pacifist preacher has cooled, but things have taken an interesting turn with their youngest brother, Henry, and Titus's "widow."