Project Gutenberg 2009-08-03 Public domain in the USA. 122 Morford, Henry 1823 1881 07026106 Shoulder-Straps: A Novel of New York and the Army, 1862 Reading ease score: 62.1 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. Produced by David Edwards, Graeme Mackreth and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) "Shoulder-Straps: A Novel of New York and the Army, 1862" by Henry Morford is a historical novel written in the mid-19th century. The story is set during the American Civil War and follows the lives of various characters in New York as they navigate the intricacies of friendship, love, and conflict. The main characters introduced in the opening chapters are Walter Lane Harding, a reserved merchant, and Tom Leslie, a free-spirited journalist, as they encounter the complexities of society amidst the backdrop of war. The opening of the novel sets a vivid scene as Harding and Leslie exit a theater and witness a disturbing incident involving a woman from the city's underbelly and a brutish man. This incident acts as a catalyst for Harding to reflect on the moral dilemmas of their time, while also establishing Leslie's previous acquaintance with Dexter Ralston, a mysterious figure whose allegiances remain uncertain. As the story unfolds, themes of honor, duty, and the personal impact of the Civil War begin to emerge, showing how the characters' lives interconnect amid the turmoil of a nation in conflict. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction PS Text Browsing: History - American Browsing: Fiction 1064705 1064706 2024-10-12T16:19:16.896242 2023-09-13T07:06:37.317343 text/html text/html 1074182 2009-08-03T08:01:58 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 456669 2009-08-03T08:01:58 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 563557 2024-10-12T16:19:31.421190 application/epub+zip 579550 2024-10-12T16:19:21.280213 application/epub+zip 488394 2024-10-12T16:19:19.689247 application/epub+zip 978188 2024-10-12T16:19:39.468154 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 934706 2024-10-12T16:19:30.378194 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 777864 2022-09-13T16:06:45.729887 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1034765 1034538 2024-10-12T16:19:15.268274 2023-09-13T07:06:35.922337 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 1034543 2009-08-03T08:01:56 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 402874 2009-08-03T08:01:58 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 1034534 2009-08-03T08:01:58 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 402839 2009-08-03T08:01:58 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21023 2024-10-12T16:19:39.602156 application/rdf+xml 20629 2024-10-12T16:19:20.292233 image/jpeg 4465 2024-10-12T16:19:19.992218 image/jpeg 550991 2024-10-12T16:19:16.993270 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog