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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
McCaig, Donald.
Jacob’s ladder: a story of Virginia during the war/by Donald McCaig.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-393-04629-X
1. Virginia—History—Civil War, 1861–1865—Fiction. 2. Virginia—History—Civil War, 1861–1865—Afro-Americans—Fiction. 3. Afro-Americans—Virginia—Fiction. 4. Gatewood family—Fiction.
I. Title.
PS3563.A255J33 1998
813’.54—dc21 9731165
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