For members of the Brannon clan, the action ranges from Pennsylvania and Virginia to Georgia, Mississippi, and Illinois. Two Brannon sons were with Lee at Gettysburg and one, Cory, was at Vicksburg. They still mourn the loss of another, Titus, presumed dead but actually interned in a prison camp. Titus is determined to escape the Yankee prison camp and make his way home. He does not yet know the price of his freedom.
Cory connects with Nathan Bedford Forrest's cavalry just in time for the action at Chickamauga. Although the battle goes well for the Confederates, the scene is set for the arrival of a new Federal commander, Ulysses S. Grant.
James Reasoner, a veteran writer of historical fiction, is the author of several volumes in the Civil War Battle series as well as the Wagons West series. He lives near Azle, Texas.
