Publisher's Synopsis
The memory of Abigail had been a vision sustaining Colonel Harry Morgan throughout the dangers and doubts that assailed him during the Civil War. It was a conflict that divided his loyalties as it divided those of a nation. It was a war in which he only half believed. A call to valor and the defense of the homeland strove with profound humane sympathies for the plight of the slaves. Now, on returning to Abigail's estate near Atlanta, Colonel Morgan finds the land to be in chaos. Abigail is alone and unprotected; her father recently murdered. She now becomes the focal point of all his attention, uniting his life. Colonel Morgan is a Southern gentleman, a breeder of horses, and a Harvard-educated lawyer, now rising in the ranks of the military as the society around him crumbles. He must draw upon all his resources to bring both Abigail and himself out of the crisis of their times ... to find meaning in the rubble of war. Speaking in the rolling cadence of his time, with a philosophical outlook and the heart of a poet, the narrator, Colonel Morgan, conveys a sense of the majesty and pageantry of history in this first-rate Civil War novel. The cover of this book is an actual photograph of a Civil War Shadow Soldier she took while investigating Hopewell Cemetery in Huntersville.
