Rebel Gray, Mountain Green【電子書籍】[ Peter McKenna ]

＜p＞Rebel Gray, Mountain Green is a story of the Confederate guerrilla raid on St. Albans, Vermont in October 1864. Though fiction, it is fact-based: most of the incidents described did happen, and most of the characters are named for the actual participants.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The book begins with a brief account of the conversion and martyrdom of Saint Alban, a Roman Centurion in Britain. The story then follows Bennett Young, the leader of the raid, from enlistment through wartime experiences: Colonel Cluke's winter incursion into Kentucky, General Morgan's summer raid into Indiana and Ohio. Captured, he escapes to Canada with his saddle mate Tom Collins. There they are recruited by Confederate spymasters, among them John Wilkes Booth, and sent by sea to Richmond, where newly commissioned Lieutenant Young is briefed by Secretary Judah P. Benjamin on the plan of attack.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Back in Canada, he and Sergeant Collins recruit other escaped prisoners for the raid. In civilian clothes they arrive in S．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る