num_pages: 448
description: Set against the dramatic backdrop of the Civil War the moving saga of the Birmingham family continues as the clash between North and South forces generations of family members to examine their personal and political loyalties. After surviving harrowing battles together cousins Ben and Luke Birmingham are dispatched by the Union army to New York City to quell rioting draft protestors. Violence spills into the streets of the teeming city and the assignment proves to be more life-threatening than the battlefield.As the war scars the nation it demands more from the family and Luke's younger brother Robert is drawn into the Union cause and must fight against the odds for survival. Meanwhile Anne Birmingham struggles with the reality that Ivar Gunderson the man who saved her life will most likely die in Andersonville prison unless she can find a way to free him. Can she rely on her family to help with her plan to rescue the man she loves?Volume three of the Faith of Our Fathers series journeys with the Birmingham family through time and place-The South the North and into the West through a war that both tears them apart and brings them back together. An epic worthy of the most pivotal event in American history Through the Perilous Fight is a story of survival acceptance and love  of a family finding where its true strength lies.
language: English
title: Faith of Our Fathers: Through the Perilous Fight
publisher: Covenant Communications Inc