Hoops of Steel: A Civil War Novel

It is June 30th, 1863. The Sixth Pennsylvania, Union cavalry, and the Ninth Virginia, Confederate cavalry, have met time and again on the battlefields of the Civil War, most recently in a titanic clash of cavalry corps at Brandy Station where the two regiments fought man to man against each other. Now the entire confederate army has come north into Pennsylvania and a monumental battle is imminent. Colonel George Sedgewick and Lieutenant Jack O'Brien have led their Sixth Pennsylvanians in pursuit of Captain David Lancaster's battalion of Ninth Virginians, only to discover the dead body of Ephraim MacQuire, who has been robbed and murdered by a marauding band of confederate guerrillas. The two Union officers take MacQuire's orphan under their wings, little realizing the far-reaching consequences this small act of generosity will have on their lives, as well as the lives of Lancaster and his First Sergeant, Benjamin Harrington. Thus begins the fast paced and engaging Hoops of Steel...Ann Georgi Leonard is the author of 'Hoops of Steel: A Civil War Novel', published 2001 under ISBN 9780970805300 and ISBN 0970805306.