The Parting: A Story of West Point on the Eve of the Civil War - Softcover

Adams, Richard Barlow

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798986126210

Verlag: RB Adams, LLC, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

In August 1860, would anyone have conceived that the upcoming November presidential election would result in the unraveling of a nation and a war between its parts, a war that would claim more lives than all its other wars combined? Told through the lens of West Point classmates and graduates, THE PARTING is a fact-based narrative of the impulsive descent of the United States of America from peace to war from August 1860 to the First Battle of Bull Run, July 1861. It is also an epic love story of West Point cadet John Pelham from Alabama and the beautiful Philadelphian Clara Bolton, who has never seen a slave and aspires to be the country’s second female doctor.

John Pelham is a first-classman (senior) at the Academy and the most popular and gifted man in the Class of 1861. Clara is a senior at Clermont College for Women on Long Island, facing an uphill battle to become a doctor in a profession reserved for men. The story unfolds against the backdrop of West Point and interwoven themes of states’ rights, slavery, Democratic and Republican parties, abolitionists of the North, fire-eaters of the South, the election of Abraham Lincoln, the secession of Southern states, the formation of the Confederacy, the resignations of Southern cadets and officers, the posturings intended to avoid war, and the bombardment and surrender of Fort Sumter on April 14, 1861, that dashed all hopes for peace.

Juxtaposed against flash-forwards leading to the climactic ending of the First Battle of Bull Run, the story flashes back to West Point to the idyllic time of August 1860, moving forward to the stark reality of war.

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Richard Barlow Adams is a man of faith, a writer/speaker, and a lover of American and world history and historical fiction, Christmas, and all things Dickens. He is the son of an Army officer, the first of three brothers to graduate from West Point, a Vietnam veteran, an Army aviator with a tour in the Middle East, a registered professional engineer, the founder of an international consulting company, and currently the chief strategy officer for Ion Power Group LLC, an innovative eco-friendly renewable energy company. Adams has also served as an adjunct professor at Southern Methodist University and as an associate professor at the United States Military Academy.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: RB Adams, LLC
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798986126210
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zeichner: Adams Richie
• Anzahl der Seiten: 397
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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