From his marriage in 1852, Will McLean has an uneasy relationship with his feisty seven-year-old stepdaughter Osceola (``Oscie''), the narrator though she loves and respects the northern governess Will hires, and absorbs many of her ideas, Oscie is uneasy with Will's progressive stance toward slavery and, later, with his profiteering.
Staying close to documented facts, as detailed in an excellent note, Rinaldi uses the McLeans' lives to dramatize the war's moral dilemmas.
By an extraordinary quirk, the McLean family entertained Confederates at their Manassas home just before the battle of Bull Run-and also hosted the peace negotiations at Appomattox, where they had moved to escape the war.
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