SecessiaNew Orleans, May 1862. The largest city in the ill starred confederacy has fallen to Union troops under the soon to be infamous General Benjamin the Beast Butler. The city is rife with madness and rage. When twelve year old Joseph Woolsack disappears from his home, he draws into the unrest his mother, Elise, a mixed race woman passing for white, and his father, Angel, whose long and wicked life is drawing to a close. What follows forces mother and son