![]() ![]() ![]() Plot: Greene's story of a Michigander who enlists, after a drunken brawl, in the Northern cavalry builds toward a lesser-known engagement at the Battle of Gettysburg, a fitting climax for a novel that focuses on everyday soldiers whose drills, marches, and skirmishes keep glancing up against history. Will they stand tall against the knights of the South and prove themselves worthy? Or will they fall beneath screaming bullets and sweeping blades, becoming more bloody fodder for a lost cause? Stuart and the Army of Northern Virginia in a small town in Pennsylvania, called Gettysburg.Īfter a series of screening battles with Stuart's men, Custer and his brigade find themselves in a winner take all battle on the third day of Gettysburg. Wolf's company find themselves riding with Custer and the Michigan Brigade on a collision course with master horseman J.E.B. The war is a distant thought to Johannes Wolf, a young German immigrant with a crippled leg keeping him off the muster lists.ĭesperately dredging the gutters for recruits, Wolf cons his way into the depleted, demoralized, and poorly run Union army, and is promptly placed in the undesirable F Company of the 13th Michigan Cavalry. It is late 1862, and the United States has been ripped apart by civil war for over a year with no end in sight. ![]() A broken man will be forged in the flames of war. ![]()
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