A Hundred Hills
A Hundred Hills
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A HUNDRED HILLS is a romantic novel about the siege of Vicksburg, the Gibraltar of the Confederacy. It is both an exciting love story and a dramatic portrayal of a crucial turning point in the war itself.
Alex Kittering, the lovely daughter of the town's wealthiest mercantile family, at first views the war with the patriotic fervor of a true daughter of the South. And her betrothal to Bryce Furlong, a planter aristocrat turned cavalry officer, follows logically in the tempo of wartime. Tempe Dixon, a young sharpshooter, who fights for the South on principle but finds war a bloody, bitter business, is Bryce's rival and enemy even before he entertains any hope of winning Alex.
As the war draws closer and closer until it is literally blazing in a circle around the besieged town, the starvation, cave-living, and other hardships attendant upon it produce changes in the town's valiant population. There are battles in this book--Shiloh, Corinth, Chikasaw Bluffs, Champion's Hill---and there is the bitter struggle, during the siege, for the riverfront town on the bluffs over the Mississippi River. But the novel concerns civilians as well as soldiers, slaves as well as free men.
In addition to young Dixon and Furlong, there are the other members of Alex Kittering's family---her grandfather, Old Joab, grim patriarch and unconverted Unionist; her ineffectual father, Stephen; her handsome bloodless mother, Epie Mae---and Mimosa, their house servant to who was has brought a weariness and mistrust of bondage.
