The Adversaries
1996 • 552 pages

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"A nation divided against itself cannot stand." — Abraham Lincoln. And so the dark days of the Civil War threaten to pull a nation and families apart.

The Jeremiah Morgans of Ohio and the Seth Coopers of Virginia share a friendship and faith stretching back two centuries to Edenford, England. Now that their children, Sarah and Daniel, are engaged to be married, that bond will forever be secured by blood. But when the Morgan brothers--J.D., Marshall, and Willy--run slaves to freedom during a Cooper family visit, a small-scale skirmish between Northern and Southern families breaks out, prophetic of the full-scale war to follow.

As the Civil War erupts, the children of the two families are uprooted from home--the boys to battlefields, Sarah to the big city of New York to write tracts for homesick soldiers. But their greater peril may come from New York banker Caleb McKenna, a long-time enemy of the Morgans and Coopers, who plots revenge for the death of his only daughter.

Can human relationships win out over political and geographical differences? Can a commitment to God and family overcome hatred and vendettas? Join a new generation of Morgan's as they experience life and love amidst a nation at war with itself.


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American Family Portrait is a 9-book series with 9 released primary works first released in 1994 with contributions by Jack Cavanaugh.

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The Adversaries
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