Stephen Brice, a young lawyer from Boston, arrives in slaveholding St. Louis in the 1850s and falls for Virginia Carvel, the spirited daughter of a Confederate-minded colonel. Around them the city divides; the scheming Yankee Eliphalet Hopper prospers, and Lincoln, Grant and Sherman cross the pages as the war arrives in Missouri.
The best-known novel of the American Winston Churchill, not the British statesman, and a broad panorama of a border city at war. Download the free EPUB.
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