Rebel (The Starbuck Chronicles, Book 1)The first book in Bernard Cornwells bestselling series on the American Civil War. It is summer 1861. The armies of North and South stand on the brink of Americas civil war. Nathanial Starbuck, jilted by his girl and estranged from his family, arrives in the capital of the Confederate South, where he enlists in an elite regiment being raised by rich, eccentric Washington Faulconer. Pledged to the Faulconer Legion, Starbuck becomes a northern boy