They were strange men to travel side by side: a clubfooted Bavarian Jew, a whip-scarred Negro, an outcast North Carolina planter. They journeyed through corpse-strewn battlefields into vermin-infested camps; witneessed pillage, whoring, brutality; saw public carnage and private agony. Three men - they played out their destinies, sought new freedom in the wildernes of the Civil War. "A remarkable book." Saturday Review.

(Key Words: Historical Fiction, United States Civil War, Robert Penn Warrren, Jews, Blacks).