The third installment in P.G. Nagle`s series of Civil War novels focuses on Confederate soldier Jamie Russell (of GLORIETTA), who returns to Galveston during the course of the war to visit his family. With all the menfolk in the army, his sister Emma is working on the family farm, and Jamie must break it to her that her fianci has been killed in battle. Emma is sent to the city to live with her aunt and get over her grief, and the rebels win the Battle of Galveston.