The novel portrays the struggles of a remote mountain family forced to contend with an uncertain fate as the chaos of the Civil War, once confined to the lowlands, begins to creep like ominous shadows, into the hills of their highlands.

This is a novel about the Battle of the Wilderness fought over three days in May, 1864. It was a bloody encounter costing 29,000 casualties. It was the first battle commanded by U S Grant and Robert E Lee and was the first battle of modern warfare.

Walt Whitman was a nurse for Union Armies during the Civil War. He once said, "The real war will never get in the books." Pittman's Stories of the Confederate South presents a true account of the real War Between the States.