Flags on the Bayou by James Lee Burke is now available for free ePub download or online reading.<\/p>\n
Intro:<\/strong><\/p>\n From New York Times<\/i>-bestselling author James Lee Burke comes a novel set in Civil War-era Louisiana as the South transforms and a brilliant cast of characters \u2013 enslaved and free women, plantation gentry, and battle-weary Confederate and Union soldiers \u2013 are caught in the maelstrom<\/p>\n In the fall of 1863, the Union army is in control of the Mississippi river. Much of Louisiana, including New Orleans and Baton Rouge, is occupied. The Confederate army is in disarray, corrupt structures are falling apart, and enslaved men and women are beginning to glimpse freedom.<\/p>\n When Hannah Laveau, a formerly enslaved woman working on the Lufkin plantation, is accused of murder, she goes on the run with Florence Milton, an abolitionist schoolteacher, dodging the local constable and the slavecatchers that prowl the bayous. Wade Lufkin, haunted by what he observed\u2014and did\u2014as a surgeon on the battlefield, has returned to his uncle\u2019s plantation to convalesce, where he becomes enraptured by Hannah. Flags on the Bayou<\/i> is an engaging, action-packed narrative that includes a duel that ends in disaster, a brutal encounter with the local Union commander, repeated skirmishes with Confederate irregulars led by a diseased and probably deranged colonel, and a powerful story of love blossoming between an unlikely pair. As the story unfolds, it illuminates a past that reflects our present in sharp relief.. First published July 11, 2023. Original format: Hardcover. Pages: 310. #flags-on-the-bayou-ebook #flags-on-the-bayou-epub #read #download<\/p>\n User Rating: 4.1 (based on 2055 ratings)<\/p>\n Download EPUB Flags on the Bayou by James Lee Burke<\/strong><\/p>\n \ud83d\udcc1 File details: flags-on-the-bayou.epub<\/em><\/p>\n