Preface -- Introduction -- Over the sea: the family divided -- Beginnings -- Fathers and children -- Men of moderation -- The Quincys and the first trials -- The Stamp Act and the Sons of Liberty -- Personal and public trials 1768 and 1769 -- The soldiers' trial: brother against brother -- Battling the doldrums -- No tempest in a teapot -- Divisions hit home -- Partings: two ocean voyages and a death -- Parting ways -- The horsemen of the apocalypse arrive -- Strangers in a strange new land -- Home fires -- An unexpected turning point: 1777 -- The beginning of the end -- Casualties -- Third time lucky: Yorktown and peace -- When the guns went silent -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index

The author traces the origins and experience of division during the American Revolution--political disagreements, intolerance, intimidation and mob violence, revealing the hidden cost of the war to families and dear friends split along party lines