Confederate Yankee Book II: The Gathering Storm

Major Elder Byrch Stuart, just returned from witnessing the surrender of Fort Sumter, is sent to Virginia by General Samuel Cooper to do an independent report of that state's assets and readiness to join the Confederate States. On his way, he and Sergeant Major Jesse Thompkins are ordered by President Jefferson Davis to investigate a very strange incident that happened in the sky over South Carolina. While investigating that, Stuart enlists the aid of a slave, Big Jim Porche, that he knew f...