Nate Starbuck, the son of an abolitionist preacher in Boston, becomes stranded in Virginia at the outbreak of the Civil War and his great respect for Richmond landowner Washington Faulconer, and an urge to rebel against his father, leads him to join Faulconer's Confederate legion.
year: 2001
call number/section: 1000
subjects: starbuck, nathaniel (fictitious character), fiction, bull run, 1st battle of, va., 1861, starbuck, nathaniel (fictional character), historical fiction, united states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, fiction, 1861-1865, civil war