The Butcher's Cleaver / Global Summit House (ePub)
moderate of all.
Claude Devereux wanted no part of secession. None of his family wanted Virginia to leave the Union.
This family of bankers owned no slaves...
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The Devereuxs of Alexandria, Virginia were moderate people. The eldest son seemed the most
moderate of all.
Claude Devereux wanted no part of secession. None of his family wanted Virginia to leave the Union.
This family of bankers owned no slaves and believed slavery to be an institution to be rid of. The
Devereux wanted to be left alone in their private world.
Nevertheless, they found Virginia's decision to secede compelling and the Lincoln Administration's
decision to suppress rebellion in the South to be unacceptable.
Family separation and exile from their home had been the inevitable result. Some family members
sided with the Union, but the overwhelming majority went South into the 17th Virginia Infantry, the
Alexandria Regiment.
In the third year of the war, the crushing forces of greater manpower, the naval blockade and the
world's largest industrial base were steadily driving the Confederacy to its knees.
Desperate times demand desperate measures. In such times who could be better placed for action
against disaster than a family of merchant bankers?
In that year of Chancellorsville, Gettysburg and Vicksburg, something had to be done. Some
gateway leading out of the maze had to be found.
Civil War and the Lincoln assassination. He is a widely published author and military consultant. His
broad experience of combat and of the espionage world uniquely combine to give him special insight
into the realities of such events across time. He lives with his wife in Alexandria, Virginia.
- Autor: W. Patrick Lang
- 2020, 1. Auflage, 484 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Global Summit House
- ISBN-10: 1648265103
- ISBN-13: 9781648265105
- Erscheinungsdatum: 04.03.2020
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