Battle Flag

Its place in The Starbuck Chronicles

Battle Flag is book 3 in the The Starbuck Chronicles series. It follows Copperhead. It is followed by The Bloody Ground. See the full The Starbuck Chronicles reading order.

The Starbuck Chronicles follows Nate Starbuck, the rebellious son of a fiercely abolitionist Boston preacher, who ends up fighting for the Confederacy almost by accident — arriving in Richmond in 1861 with no Southern sympathies at all, only to be swept into the Confederate army and, over four novels, become a hardened and increasingly capable officer. It's Bernard Cornwell applying his usual formula — a compromised, class-conflicted protagonist thrown into meticulously researched, unglamorous battle sequences …