The Bloody Ground

Its place in The Starbuck Chronicles

The Bloody Ground is book 4 in the The Starbuck Chronicles series. It follows Battle Flag. 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 …