Book Synopsis
Volume Three in the Navy Gray series finds our band of adventurers attempting to pierce Mr. Lincoln’s blockade. While the battle for the Cape Hatteras Forts rages just over the horizon, they encounter the steam yacht Celeste, converted by her influential owner into a gunboat and placed at the service of the Union navy. Entering the Confederacy, they embark upon a series of challenges that take them in various directions and involve them in the higher levels of both the Union and Confederate governments, the relationships between master and slave, husbands and wives, siblings, and members of the profession of arms. Filled with accurate details of communities, personalities, geography, vessels, weapons, and events that permeate the story and direct the characters’ actions, For Arms immerses the reader in the America of late 1861 as the both Northerners and Southerners realize they are in for a long conflict.