- To distract Orry, whose brooding about Madeline wrecks his West Point performance, George drags him to Alice Peet for laundry and 'intimate' services. After Bent arranges for Fisk to be thrown off during a hell ride on his fiery mount Satan, Bent bluffs his way out of a court-martial but the mates arrange for its president, Lieutenant Casimir De Jong, to find his 'love rival' in Alice's bed and bully him out of West Point after a promise of eternal revenge. Two years later the gang graduates. At a welcome party hosted by pa Tillet Maine, Justin scolds Madelin for openly disagreeing with separatism and arranges slave Priam to offend publicly so overseer Salem Jones is allowed to punish his insolence with branding. Orry starts a secret affair with reluctant Madeline. Bent plays his secret trump card, Ohio's US Senator Charles Edwards, being Elkanah's natural father, to get commissioned as infantry captain in president Polk's war to wrest Texas from Mexico, and sends lieutenants Orry and George on a virtual suicide reconnaissance at Churubusco. Shell-hit Orry is crippled for life, but Constance, the daughter of Colonel Patrick Flynn MD, who saved Orry from worse, becomes George's true love. After pa William Hazard's death, George resigns and joins the firm under Stanley's directorship. Madelin helps Priam run away, Justin flogs all slaves as possible accomplices. Even Orry leaves his recluse room to join the manhunt and meets Madeline again.—KGF Vissers
- Now back at West Point, Orry is having more than just a little trouble forgetting about Madeline. George introduces him to a very nice way to pass the time but to no avail. Cadet Elkanah Bent has eased up on them but when he goes too far in disciplining one of their classmates, they plot their own revenge, the end result being Bent's dismissal from the academy. George and Orry both graduate in 1846 and back in South Carolina before he and George are posted to their Regiment, Orry again sees Madeline and they soon become lovers. A rift develops between Orry and George when a drunken slave, Priam, is severely punished. The new lieutenants are in the war with Mexico and soon find themselves in battle at Churubusco. There they find that Bent has received a direct commission as a Captain courtesy of his putative father, a U.S. Senator and is now their commanding officer. He orders Orry to lead a recon mission with disastrous results. Meanwhile, George meets Constance Flynn an Irish beauty who agrees to marry him.—garykmcd
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