Cronicas de Starbuck
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Chance has turned Nathaniel Starbuck into a "copperhead", a Northerner who in the American Civil War fought on the side of the rebellious South. With the help of Allan Pinkerton, his chief spy, General McClellan is convinced that he can lead the Northmen to the gates of the rebel capital, Richmond. Starbuck, expelled from his regiment by its founder, the vain Washington Faulconer, will have to travel an arduous road to reunite with his comrades: he will pass through the inhuman jails of Richmond, he will cross the bloody and smoky battlefields of Virginia, and even he will infiltrate the high command of the northern army. Because Starbuck has joined the "shadow war" of treason and espionage, in which nothing is safe and no one can be trusted.
When landowner Washington Faulconer frees young Nate Starbuck (the son of an antislavery preacher) from the clutches of an angry mob hostile to the Yankees, Nate is filled with gratitude and respect for the idealist who has rescued him. He decides to leave behind the life he led in Boston and enlist in the newly formed Faulconer Legion, even if it means fighting against the North that saw him born. However, Nate's is just one of the many dilemmas present in that motley Legion. Faulconer's son can't bring himself to fight, while his daughter's fiancÉ plots to take control of the family fortune. When they come together to march into battle, these men are ready to start a war ... but unprepared for the changes that will forever affect themselves first, and then the entire nation, thanks to the solemn oath they have sworn to their beloved South.