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It was Spring and the bloodletting at Franklin was done. General Lee surrenders and only General Johnston and his small army of 21,000 men stand in the way of complete victory by the Union Armies. After the battle of Bentonville, Johnston has 2,606 less men, no food, and no will to fight on.
Sam Atkins and 18,000 ragged Confederates wait at Durham Station to see if they will have to again fight the well-armed and rested Federals. Seeing no way out, Johnston surrenders, and after giving up their rifles, Sam and his friend Leander, begin their long walk home through a devastated South.
In a Southern patriot’s barn, they meet up with Alabamian, George Forrest, who, through a series of odd circumstances, fought with the North. Then, while cleaning his pistol, Leander accidentally wounds George. Sam reluctantly promises the mortally wounded George, that he will go to Alabama and tell his family what happened to him. On his way home to Florida, Sam encounters a fleeing Jefferson Davis, discovers a cache of Confederate gold, befriends a freed slave, and meets his first love in a series of events that will forever change his life.
In the second volume of the Three Came Home Trilogy, Aronoff takes us on a wild, unexpected journey through a disorganized and lawless post-war South, with a most satisfying result in the end.
