The sands of pride
By: William R. Trotter.
Edition: 1st Carroll & Graf ed.
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 754
Subjects: North Carolina -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Centered in Wilmington, North Carolina, during a bawdy "Golden Age," Trotter's saga intertwines the fates of more than two dozen major characters - real and fictional, Union and Confederate, combatants and civilians.

Chronicled are the exploits of staid plantation owner turned audacious sea captain Matthew Sloane; intrepid Federal naval officer William Barker Cushing; sadistic bushwacker Cyrus Bone; the seductive Confederate spy, Belle O'Neal; Jacob Landau, scion of a Jewish merchant family at whose emporium blockade-runners' goods bring in Confederate dollars; and Augustus Hobart-Hampden, unofficial representative of Queen Victoria to the Confederacy and lover of Jacob's daughter, Largo. At the confluence of the many stories flowing through this grand narrative towers Fort Fisher - literally built of sand - the most formidable earthen fortress ever erected in America.

This symbol of Southern defiance, the guardian of Wilmington's boisterous docks, helped keep the South stocked with arms and supplies."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Maps on lining papers.