Jacob\'s Ladder is a Civil War epic, a love Story that pits the indomitable longing of the human heart against circumstances of racism, slavery, and war.
Lee, Jesse--a Gatewood slave whose love for Maggie is unrequited--escap.
As Duncan fights for Robert E.
Maggie and Jacob are sold south, and Duncan is packed off to the Virginia Military Institute.
Duncan Gatewood, seventeen and heir to the Gatewood plantation, falls in love with Maggie, a mulatto slave, who conceives a son, Jacob.
Jacob\'s Ladder is a Civil War epic, a love Story that pits the indomitable longing of the human heart against circumstances of racism, slavery, and war