num_pages: 328
description: Williamsburg Virginia is once more the scene in this second book of Thane's series but the time is now the 1860s. Some of the characters are the descendants of those in the first novel Dawns Early Light and Grandmother Day who was 16 when Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown is now 95. Once she can remember it was Massachusetts that was threatening to secede instead of South Carolina. And when she was a girl they never seemed to think much about Yankees one way or the other. But when a Yankee comes to Williamsburg in the tense autumn of 1860 and red-haired Eden Day falls heels over head in love with him her great grandmother takes the long viewbesides she likes him herself. The story moves from Williamsburg to Richmond to Washington and back again during the dreadful years between Fort Sumter and Appomattox. In addition to the fictitious characters Jeb Stuart and General Lee Pickett Magruder and Stonewall Jackson are all seen through the eyes of the men who followed them into battle. Like Dawns Early Light Yankee Stranger is full of action and romance but most importantly it presents a vivid re-creation of a vanished world. 
language: English
title: Yankee Stranger
publisher: Chicago Review Press