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Jacob's Ladder: A Story of Virginia During the War
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Jacob's Ladder: A Story of Virginia During the War Paperback - 1999

by Donald McCaig; Afterword by Robert E. Lee

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Widely acclaimed, with comparisons to Margaret Mitchell and Shelby Foote, Jacob's Ladder is a rich and poignant novel. It is the story of Duncan Gatewood, seventeen and heir to the Gatewood Plantation in Virginia. Duncan falls in love with Maggie, a mulatto slave, who bears him a son, Jacob. Maggie and Jacob are sold south, and Duncan is packed off by his irate father to the Virginia Military Institute. As a cadet, Duncan guards the gallows of John Brown; as a man he will fight for Robert E. Lee and the South. Another Gatewood slave, Jesse -- whose love for Maggie is unrequited -escapes to freedom and enlists in Mr. Lincoln's army; in time he will confront his former masters.

Permeated with a wealth of scrupulously researched historical detail, McCaig conjures up the interlocked lives of masters and slaves so skillfully that he has gained praise from African American historians and the descendants of confederate veterans. Jacob's Ladder, lauded by the Virginia Quarterly as "the best Civil War novel ever written, " is an epic tale that resonates with all the bitter glory and deep human shame of America's greatest war.

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WINTERS WERE COLDER in those days: they remembered that.

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  • Title Jacob's Ladder: A Story of Virginia During the War
  • Author Donald McCaig; Afterword by Robert E. Lee
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 527
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Group, New York
  • Publication date June 1, 1999
  • ISBN 9780140282658 / 0140282653
  • Weight 1.06 lbs (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.53 x 5.55 x 1.17 in (21.67 x 14.10 x 2.97 cm)
  • Age range 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Category Fiction - Historical
  • Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, Virginia - History - Civil War, 1861-1865
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 97031165
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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