Rudiments of the Art of Building: In Five Sections (1854)

Robert de la Rey has it all: good looks, a promising future, an excellent background, and enough ambition to see him into the White House. For him, life is there to be lived to the fullest, regardless of whom he has to sacrifice on the way. Daniel Hunter has just two loves in his life: his job as major in the Army and a woman-Jo-Ellen Jefferson. Against the explosive background of the American Civil War, these two men find themselves on a collision course, battling for the same woman, and fighting for different political causes, as the war tests courage, integrity and loyalty, and drives a wedge between them forever.