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Burke, James Lee, 1936-

Flags on the Bayou / James Lee Burke. - London : Orion, 2023. - 310 p.

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 retreating toward Texas, and being replaced by Red Legs, irregulars commanded by a maniacal figure, and enslaved men and women are beginning to glimpse freedom. When Hannah Laveau, an 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—and did—as a surgeon on the battlefield, has returned to his uncle's plantation to convalesce, where he becomes enraptured by Hannah.

ISBN: 9781398715516 1398715514 9781398715509 1398715506

Nat. Bib. No.: GBC383676 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 021040213 Uk

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Louisiana--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Historical fiction.

Dewey Class. No.: 813.54