Vincent Wingfield, son of a Virginia plantation family, defies local opinion by helping a runaway slave and his wife, then joins the Confederate army when his state secedes. He fights at Bull Run and through the campaigns of Jackson and Lee, is captured, escapes and dodges bushwhackers, with the faithful Dan at his side. Henty writes as a sympathiser with the South; his racial attitudes are those of 1890.
A characteristic Henty boys’ adventure, best read as a period piece and with its partisan view of the war in mind. Download the free EPUB.