Fire on the waters : a novel of the Civil War at sea

"A banking family's son joins the Navy to avoid family obligations and serves under an Annapolis graduate from Virginia who faces an agonizing choice when the South starts contemplating secession."@en
"Wealthy Elisha Eaker joins the Navy in 1861 to avoid an unwanted marriage and is assigned to the U.S.S. Owanee. Ker Claiborne, the ship's executive officer, is struggling with the choice between the Navy and Virginia. Their ship is then ordered to relieve Fort Sumter."
"Wealthy Elisha Eaker joins the Navy in 1861 to avoid an unwanted marriage and is assigned to the U.S.S. Owanee. As the ship's executive officer Ker Claiborne struggles with a choice between the Navy and his native Virginia, its crew is ordered to relieve Fort Sumter."@en
"With the outbreak of the Civil War, New Yorker Eli Eaker enlists in the Union Navy against his father's wishes and joins the crew of Captain Parker Bucyrus Trezevant, who is sailing south to help protect Fort Sumter."