Caught "betwixt and between", John will not fight for the South but is unwilling to bear arms against his own brothers. His three male Hale cousins Jake, Malachi, and James join the Union Army. John's three brothers Matthew, Mark, and Luke will eventually serve in the Confederate Army. John's first assignment takes him to the trial of abolitionist John Brown where he meets and befriends the mysterious Jonas Steele, a former Jayhawker and Pinkerton detective.Īfter falling out with his family over the issues of slavery and secession over the Christmas of 1860, John returns to Pennsylvania for good. The drama begins in 1859 when John Geyser, the primary protagonist, becomes bored with life on the farm and travels to Pennsylvania to work as an artist correspondent for the newspaper of his uncle Jacob Hale, Sr. The Hales are pro-Union and anti-slavery but like many northerners at the time they hope for a peaceful solution to the nation's problems.
The lone exception in the family is son John, an artistic young man who becomes sympathetic to the plight of southern slaves and free blacks. The Geysers are generally indifferent to the issue of slavery but are sympathetic to the Southern cause. The Hales own a small newspaper in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The Geysers are southern farmers from Charlottesville, Virginia. The plot revolves around the families of two sisters Maggie Geyser and Evelyn Hale.
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