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In this grandly ambitious masterpiece of Civil War fiction, noted novelist and historian William R. Trotter has created nothing less than an epic re-creation of the whole experience of the warfrom secession to Gettysburgwithin the microcosm of North Carolina, a theater of war never before brought to life in a major novel of the Civil War. Trotter's powerful story follows the intertwined fates of over two dozen major charactersreal and fictional, Union and Confederate, combatants and civiliansswept up in the hurricane of war. In The Sands of Pride, he chronicles the exploits of bold blockade-runners like Southerner Matthew Sloane, intrepid naval warriors like Federal officer William Barker Cushings, sadistic bushwhackers like Cyrus Bone, and spies like the Confederacy's seductive Belle O'Neal. The novel's center of gravity is the beautiful coastal city of Wilmington, North Carolina, in the midst of a vibrant, bawdy "Golden Age". It was the South's most vital port and guarded by the largest, most formidable earthen fortress ever built in America, Fort Fisher, a stupendous feat of engineering and a symbol of Southern defiance. After every other significant Rebel port had been vanquish

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Author

Trotter, William R., 1943-

Publisher

New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780786710133

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction

Rating

3.8 / 5 (40 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13