Resultados para "Snakebit" en Militar

The Western Maryland, Garret family, struggle to maintain their farm as their neighbors argue the slavery issue. They live in a border state where folks take both sides and emotions run hot. Their stoic matriarch, known only as "Mother" holds the family together in the absence of her dead husband. The deceased patriarch, Valentine, was a giant of a man both in stature and character. He acts as the family conscience and mentor throughout the novel. It is his admonition that people who get snakebit think and act crazy which is how he viewed the state of the country when he died.

The Garrett Family faces an alarming situation. War is declared and they're in the thick of it. On the border between the Confederacy and the Union, Maryland families live on both sides of their brand-new, disconcerting border. Friends and neighbors are forced to take sides. The listener witnesses unrest in California and conflict in Arizona. Back East, green soldiers flock to their flags and tragedy strikes at the Union debacle, Ball's Bluff.