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Book SynopsisThe Long Roll brings alive the differing motives for secession and war, and eerily evokes the suspicion and battered consciences of both North and South.
Trade ReviewA cousin of Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, Mary Johnston was an enormously popular novelist in her day... Innovative[ly] mixing fact and fiction, she drew on wartime diarists and on the memories of her fighting cousin, who figures as a character in the books. Washington Post Book World
Table of ContentsChapter 1. The Botetourt Resolutions
Chapter 2. The Hilltop
Chapter 3. Three Oaks
Chapter 4. Greenwood
Chapter 5. Thunder Run
Chapter 6. By Ashby's Gap
Chapter 7. The Dogs of War
Chapter 8. A Christening
Chapter 9. Winchester
Chapter 10. Lieutenant McNeil
Chapter 11. "As Joseph Was a Walking"
Chapter 12. "The Bath and Romney Trip"
Chapter 13. Fool Tom Jackson
Chapter 14. The Iron Clads
Chapter 15. Kernstown
Chapter 16. Rude's Hill
Chapter 17. Cleave and Judith
Chapter 18. McDowell
Chapter 19. The Flowering Wood
Chapter 20. Front Royal
Chapter 21. Steven Dagg
Chapter 22. The Valley Pike
Chapter 23. Mother and Son
Chapter 24. The Foot Cavalry
Chapter 25. Ashby
Chapter 26. The Bridge at Port Republic
Chapter 27. Judith and Stafford
Chapter 28. The Longest Way Round
Chapter 29. The Nine-Mile Road
Chapter 30. At the President's
Chapter 31. The First of the Seven Days
Chapter 32. Gaines's Mill
Chapter 33. The Heel of Achilles
Chapter 34. The Railroad Gun
Chapter 35. White Oak Swamp
Chapter 36. Malvern Hill
Chapter 37. A Woman
Chapter 38. Cedar Run
Chapter 39. The Field of Manassas
Chapter 40. A Gunner of Pelham's
Chapter 41. The Tollgate
Chapter 42. Special Orders, No. 191
Chapter 43. Sharpsburg
Chapter 44. By the Opequon
Chapter 45. The Lone Tree Hill
Chapter 46. Fredericksburg
Chapter 47. The Wilderness
Chapter 48. The River
