The White and the Black of It: The Christmas Chronicles: 1

In this fictionalized version of the American Civil War, the fall of Vicksburg eclipsed all rational Southern hope of prevailing, but the Confederacy refused defeat. Black citizens are obliged to raise their own military in defense of their new freedom. A pitched racial battle occurs that ends in a deadly inferno and, ultimately, a standoff. What happens when James, the Blacks' leader, returns and meets Lee Christmas, a white man raised in conflict? D. R. McNachten's The White and the Black...