About the Novel

This novel is about our nation, during perhaps its most critical time in history. Our nation's leaders were at odds --- northern leaders and southern leaders failed to reconcile their differences over slavery and other issues.

Plot Overview

Young Robbie Holcott, reared in abolitionist traditions, ventures south to further his education. He finds friendships and love as well as minor hatred and bigotry. Evenso, he finds more good than bad in his southern life experience. Subsequently, when civil war comes, Robbie finds himself in the Confederate army.

Story Style

The story is intertwined between fact and fiction.