Experience an extraordinary year in the lives of four ordinary southerners: 1865 - a year that saw war, disunion, and slavery give way to peace, reconstruction, and freedom. Samuel Agnew, a minister grappled with spiritual and worldly concerns; Louis Hughes, a slave, strove to gain freedom for himself and his family; Cornelia McDonald, a widow, struggled to raise her children amid poverty; John Robertson, a Confederate soldier, searched for new life far away from war.
This summary is courtesy of McNaughton Books