Title: Perish From The Earth
Description: The riveting narrative of a Confederate provocateur in 1863 Manhattan who changes the course and outcome of the War Between the States. A tale of  personal disintegration foretelling that of a nation, *Perish From The Earth* creates a luminous image of Manhattan street battles and the lives of mobs — the product of political chicanery, public corruption, immigrant misery, the gangs of New York peopled with vivid historical characterizations. John Patrick Callahan's first-hand account of the Great New-York Rebellion of 1863 is flanked by commentary from a prominent military historian, ca. 1880, as this volume is published to a fractured nation seeking to fight itself back together in 1880. A fine layered fiction and a great read.
Subjects: Civil War, New York City history, the Confederacy, Fiction, historical, general
Places: Manhattan, Gettysburg, New Orleans, Confederacy
People: Abraham Lincoln, General Custer, John Hay, Samuel Clemens, John W. DeForest
Time periods: 1860-1880