It features the American Revolutionary War as fought in the Deep South, and is the first fictional publication by any president of the United States.

[1] The New York Times likened Carter's prose to a school teacher delivering a lesson.

It praised his "congenial" tone and meticulous descriptions of colonial life but felt the narrative was bogged down by long explanations of political events.

[1] In a 2024 retrospective on Carter's life, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution called it "flawed fiction" but still described it as worthy of attention.

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