Jacob's Ladder: A Story of Virginia During the War AUTH-9817445 Succinct and utterly memorable

Succinct and utterly memorable

and the forces that once made this harbor a critically important economic powerhouse for the nation

Includes a new translation of the complete text of Pleasures and Days

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Jacob's Ladder: A Story of Virginia During the War AUTH-9817445 Succinct and utterly memorableJacob's Ladder is a Civil War epic, a love story that pits the indomitable longing of the human heart against circumstances of racism, slavery, and war. Duncan Gatewood, seventeen and heir to the Gatewood plantation, falls in love with Maggie, a mulatto slave, who conceives a son, Jacob. Maggie and Jacob are sold south, and Duncan is packed off to the Virginia Military Institute. As Duncan fights for Robert E. Lee, Jesse a Gatewood slave whose love