"The story of the Reddy family and the city of Buffalo continues in this sequel to the best selling novel Da's Shillelagh. The family and the city grow as they find themselves swept up in the chaos of the divided country and cast into the midst of the bloodiest war in the young nation's history. Life on the infamous Canal Street, along with the coming of the railroads, an Irish Bishop, fugitive slaves, abolitionists, draft riots, Gettysburg, Cold Harbor and later the Irish Fenian invasion of Canada, provide the framework for this page turning tale of a family's struggle to survive and prosper in the Queen City of the Lakes"--Back cover.