The Bloody Ground : Book 4

Author: Cornwell, Bernard

War & combat fiction

Published on 26 September 2013 by HarperCollins Publishers (HarperCollins) in the United Kingdom as part of 'The Starbuck Chronicles' series.

The fourth volume of Bernard Cornwell’s bestselling series on the American Civil War and featuring rebel Nathaniel Starbuck - a yankee fighting for the Southern cause.

It is late summer 1862 and the Confederacy is invading the United States of America.

Nate Starbuck, a northern preacher’s son fighting for the rebel South, is given command of a punishment battalion – a despised unit of shirkers and cowards. His enemies expect it to be his downfall, as Starbuck must lead this ramshackle unit into a battle that will prove to be the bloodiest of the Civil War.