![]() ![]() Meanwhile, things are slightly less tragic for the iron-monger Hazards of Pennsylvania. (The scheme is foiled by Orry.) And shipbuilder-brother Cooper Main, unhinged by the drowning death of his little son, becomes a bloodthirsty fanatic for a while-but settles down in time to take over the Mains' demolished plantation at war's end. As for Orry's evil sister Ashton, she's filthier than ever-cuckolding her husband, profiting from profiteering, conspiring to assassinate Jefferson Davis. ![]() Orry's young cousin Charles excels as a scout (he recoils from officer-dom), falls in love with feisty farm-widow Augusta, but is hopelessly torn between Love and War-with heartbreak (Gus' death in secret childbirth) ahead. ![]() and will die ingloriously, shot by a scurvy Yankee prisoner. Orry Main will at last marry star-crossed love Madeline-but after her octoroon secret is revealed (thanks to doomed monster-villain Elkanah Bent), Orry is ostracized by his Confederacy colleagues in Richmond. As before, the plantation-owning Mains of South Carolina do the bulk of the suffering here. Part II of Jakes' Civil War trilogy-following the pre-war years (North and South, 1982) with over 1000 pages to cover the Hazard and Main families from 1861 to 1865. ![]()
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