How Long to Read The Adventures of Sidney Sawyer: the Year of Jubilee

How Long Does it Take to Read The Adventures of Sidney Sawyer: the Year of Jubilee?

It takes the average reader 9 hours and 4 minutes to read The Adventures of Sidney Sawyer: the Year of Jubilee by David Smeltz

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

David M. Smeltz, the master of high adventure, spins another grand yarn bringing the War Between the States to life through the memoirs of the notorious Civil War hero, General Sidney Thomas Sawyer. This superbly researched saga is the best history this side of living it. The loveable rascals from Mark Twain's 'Americana along the Mississippi' reach military age as the nation divides North from South. In this, the third installment of his scandalous memoirs, Tom Sawyer's nasty snitch of a half-brother, Sidney, blossoms into the greatest scoundrel in the Union Army. Wrapped in quilts and well dosed with gin and tonic, the ancient imposter records his greatest and most deplorable adventure. Wounded in the fires of Shiloh (all of Sidney's wounds are in the back) and covered with counterfeit glory, our reluctant hero is happily malingering at home with his stunning wife Amy and sweet Aunt Polly when he is hoodwinked back to the colors by President Lincoln's personal Hebrew spy and chiropodist. (Lincoln's feet had more corns than Kansas.) An officer but never a gentlemen, newly promoted Colonel Sawyer sets out on a secret mission to deliver the North's ultimatum to Jefferson Davis, warning the Rebels of the Emancipation Proclamation. On the way to Richmond he brawls with John Hay, frolics with Washington tarts, dallies with murderous Confederate widows and flees for his life from Madam Becky Thatcher and her gang of assassins. With Brother Tom's childhood chum Ben Rogers, Sidney highballs through war-torn Virginia at a mile-a-minute in a locomotive race with death as Confederate killers thunder in pursuit. Hitching a ride on the Underground Railroad, Colonel Sawyer throws in his lot with the classically educated Miss Sojourner Ursa Major, the stunning but deadly Negro abolitionist. Together they shepherd their flock of desperate runaways to the Jubilee, battling Rebel marauders, slave catchers, deformed sadists and raging rivers.Lincoln, as fine a judge of character as ever swiveled the presidential chair, appreciates Colonel Sawyer's talent for deceit and sends him out to spy again, this time on his own generals as Robert E. Lee's confederates invade the North. Galloping across the Antietam battlefield with the reins in his teeth and a carbine in his fist, our man barely survives America's bloodiest day only to be captured by Johnny cavalry and betrayed to his worst enemy, a disfigured killer with a score to settle. On the heights above Harpers Ferry in an epic duel of sabers, pistols and treachery, Colonel Sidney Sawyer fights for his life as President Lincoln proclaims the YEAR OF JUBILEE!

How long is The Adventures of Sidney Sawyer: the Year of Jubilee?

The Adventures of Sidney Sawyer: the Year of Jubilee by David Smeltz is 528 pages long, and a total of 136,224 words.

This makes it 178% the length of the average book. It also has 166% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Adventures of Sidney Sawyer: the Year of Jubilee Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 12 hours and 24 minutes to read The Adventures of Sidney Sawyer: the Year of Jubilee aloud.

What Reading Level is The Adventures of Sidney Sawyer: the Year of Jubilee?

The Adventures of Sidney Sawyer: the Year of Jubilee is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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