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The Adventures of Sidney Sawyer: The Year of Jubilee
The Adventures of Sidney Sawyer: The Year of Jubilee
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David M. Smeltz, the master of high adventure, spins another grand yarn bringing the War Between the States to life through the memoirs of the notorious Civil War hero, General Sidney Thomas Sawyer. This superbly researched saga is the best history this side of living it. The loveable rascals from Mark Twain's 'Americana along the Mississippi' reach military age as the nation divides North from South. In this, the third installment of his scandalous memoirs, Tom Sawyer's nasty snitch of a half-brother, Sidney, blossoms into the greatest scoundrel in the Union Army. Wrapped in quilts and well dosed with gin and tonic, the ancient imposter records his greatest and most deplorable adventure including unique sketches of Sam Grant, Jeff Davis, Honest Abe and an entirely new slant on the Emancipation Proclamation.
Wounded in the fires of Shiloh (all of Sidney's wounds are in the back) and covered with counterfeit glory, our reluctant hero is happily malingering at home with his stunning wife Amy and sweet Aunt Polly when he is hoodwinked back to the colors by President Lincoln's personal Hebrew spy and chiropodist. (Lincoln's feet had more corns than Kansas.) An officer but never a gentlemen, newly promoted Colonel Sawyer sets out on a secret mission to deliver the North's ultimatum to Jefferson Davis, warning the Rebels of the Emancipation Proclamation. On the way to Richmond he brawls with John Hay, frolics with Washington tarts, dallies with murderous Confederate widows and flees for his life from Madam Becky Thatcher and her gang of assassins. With Brother Tom's childhood chum Ben Rogers, Sidney highballs through war-torn Virginia at a mile-a-minute in a locomotive race with death as Confederate killers thunder in pursuit. Hitching a ride on the Underground Railroad, Colonel Sawyer throws in his lot with the classically educated Miss Sojourner Ursa Major, the stunning but deadly Negro abolitionist. Together they shepherd their flock of desperate runaways to the Jubilee, battling Rebel marauders, slave catchers, deformed sadists and raging rivers.
Lincoln, as fine a judge of character as ever swiveled the presidential chair, appreciates Colonel Sawyer's talent for deceit and sends him out to spy again, this time on his own generals as Robert E. Lee's confederates invade the North. Galloping across the Antietam battlefield with the reins in his teeth and a carbine in his fist, our man barely survives America's bloodiest day only to be captured by Johnny cavalry and betrayed to his worst enemy, a disfigured killer with a score to settle. On the heights above Harpers Ferry in an epic duel of sabers, pistols and treachery, Colonel Sidney Sawyer fights for his life as President Lincoln proclaims the YEAR OF JUBILEE!
Wounded in the fires of Shiloh (all of Sidney's wounds are in the back) and covered with counterfeit glory, our reluctant hero is happily malingering at home with his stunning wife Amy and sweet Aunt Polly when he is hoodwinked back to the colors by President Lincoln's personal Hebrew spy and chiropodist. (Lincoln's feet had more corns than Kansas.) An officer but never a gentlemen, newly promoted Colonel Sawyer sets out on a secret mission to deliver the North's ultimatum to Jefferson Davis, warning the Rebels of the Emancipation Proclamation. On the way to Richmond he brawls with John Hay, frolics with Washington tarts, dallies with murderous Confederate widows and flees for his life from Madam Becky Thatcher and her gang of assassins. With Brother Tom's childhood chum Ben Rogers, Sidney highballs through war-torn Virginia at a mile-a-minute in a locomotive race with death as Confederate killers thunder in pursuit. Hitching a ride on the Underground Railroad, Colonel Sawyer throws in his lot with the classically educated Miss Sojourner Ursa Major, the stunning but deadly Negro abolitionist. Together they shepherd their flock of desperate runaways to the Jubilee, battling Rebel marauders, slave catchers, deformed sadists and raging rivers.
Lincoln, as fine a judge of character as ever swiveled the presidential chair, appreciates Colonel Sawyer's talent for deceit and sends him out to spy again, this time on his own generals as Robert E. Lee's confederates invade the North. Galloping across the Antietam battlefield with the reins in his teeth and a carbine in his fist, our man barely survives America's bloodiest day only to be captured by Johnny cavalry and betrayed to his worst enemy, a disfigured killer with a score to settle. On the heights above Harpers Ferry in an epic duel of sabers, pistols and treachery, Colonel Sidney Sawyer fights for his life as President Lincoln proclaims the YEAR OF JUBILEE!
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