A girl farrier (blacksmith) and her twin are forced from their family by the ‘Blood Law’. She joins Wheeler’s Army of Tennessee horse mounted soldiers as one of the few women in the Civil War. Travel the Cherokee homeland in Georgia in the 1840s to the fever-ridden jungles of Cuba in 1898.

• Chapter# / Title

• Perspective

• In Appreciation

• The Northern Mockingbird

• Farrier

• The Cavalry of the CSA in the West

• 1: Fall 1862 – The Sequatchie Valley Tennessee

• 2: 1842

• 3: The Twins

• 4: Fighting Joe

• 5: Becoming Horse and Mule Soldiers

• 6: In the Field with General Joe and the Major

• 7: The General and the Widow

• 8: Knoxville and Beyond

• 9: Spring Place and the War Women

• 10: A Soldier’s Pilgrimage

• 11: December 1863 to August 1864

• 12: An Ending and the Uncertainty of the Future

• 13: The Sentence

• 14 : Home Again - August 1864

• 15 : The Pea Patch

• 16 : Two Pilgrims - One South Bound - One West

• 17 : Veteran's Journey

• 18 : Lincoln County Tennessee - Fall 1865

• 19 : 1870 Reunion

• 20 : Words from Home and the Road

• 21 : New Arrangements

• 22 : Bountiful Late Harvest

• 23 : On New Battlegrounds

• 24 : Politics and Religion

• 25 : August 1886 - Changes

• 26 : Through High Places and Valleys

• 27 : Unorthodoxy in the Piney Woods

• 28 : A Late Calling

• 29 : Getting to Another War

• 30 : ‘Cuba Libre’ 1898

• Epilogue – “Taps, day is done . . . .”

• Afterword

• Resources

• The Author