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"It is 1865. Jesse Wilder has survived the horrors of Shiloh, the hell of a Yankee prison camp, and the shame of volunteering for the Union army of the West - the only way to escape certain death in the camp. Now the war is over and he has come home to Tennessee. But the word of his "treachery" has preceded him and Jesse finds himself shunned by his neighbors, and worse, disinherited by his late father. Like so many disillusioned survivors of the...
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Jesse Wilder was a man who had seen more than his share of violence. A former captain in the Army of Tennessee, he was inducted into the Union army as a "galvanized Yankee" after the battle of Shiloh. After the war he headed to Mexico to fight with the Juaristas against Emperor Maximilian. That cost him the life of his wife and his unborn child. All he wanted then was peace. But instead he was offered a position as a scout on a highly secret mission...