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Reviewed by Alice DiNizo for Readers' Favorite
Our tale begins in the years before the Civil War. River Hunter is the son of a Cherokee mother and long-disappeared and probably dead Scotch-Irish father. Despite his Native American looks, he pursues reading and an education in Alabama. River's goal is to become a lawyer. When Native Americans were forced from their homelands his family moved from the Carolinas to Alabama with its cotton belt. River is attracted to Sarah Condon, daughter of the owners of the nearby Rose Hill plantation, but her parents discourage the relationship as River is a half-Native American and dresses in buckskins. The awfulness of the Civil War descends upon this country with the election of Abraham Lincoln as President. River joins the Confederate Army and is soon known as a killing machine in battle. He rises to the rank of Colonel and when the war ends, returns to Alabama where he finds Sarah Condon to be a widow with a small son and her family's plantation burned to the ground.
"The Alabama Rebel" by author Thomas Roe is the well-written story of a man, River Hunter, who succeeds despite his heritage. River Hunter, his family and friends are all well-developed characters and the plot line accurately follows history as River's story plays out. The recounting of Civil War battles could use more dialogue and less straight recounting which history buffs will know quite well. However, "The Alabama Rebel" tells of the South in those years before the Civil War and makes the reader know that not everyone living back then in the deep South was an extremist. Blacks, whites and Native Americans lived in relative peace with each other and River's ability to stand up to bullies and bigots and succeed, even making friends with them, is well-worth reading. "The Alabama Rebel" should go onto reading lists everywhere.
