Rebel Raiders

by Griff Hosker Book 1 in the Lucky Jack’s Civil War series.

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Jack Hogan is orphaned by murder and then press-ganged aboard a slave ship, an experience that eventually leaves him in Charleston under the power of a slaveholder. When the American Civil War begins, Jack and other displaced young men are drawn into Confederate partisan service rather than conventional army life.

Operating behind Union lines, the riders use ambush, intelligence and rapid movement in the manner associated with John Mosby’s partisan rangers. Jack’s private hatred of the man responsible for his family’s destruction remains entangled with the larger war. The novel follows irregular cavalry warfare while showing how personal revenge can survive inside a conflict whose political stakes are far larger than any one grievance.

Historical Periods

Battle of Gettysburg1863 CE

Historical people

Abraham Lincoln1809–1865 Ulysses S. Grant1822–1885 Robert E. Lee1807–1870 Jefferson Davis1808–1889 Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson1824–1863 William Tecumseh Sherman