civil war 1861-1865

After the Civil War, African Americans placed poignant "information wanted" advertisements in newspapers, searching for missing family members. During the slave years, families were often split up and sold to owners of other plantations, and sometimes to other states.

Seventeen-year-old Violet Dancey is spending the Civil War with a new stepmother and stepsister and her young cousin when she comes upon a wounded Yankee soldier, Thomas, who is being kept alive by mysterious voodoo practitioners.

The Civil War seen through the eyes of four Union soldiers--Lt. William Glison of the 6th Ohio Infantry, Sergeant Will Duncan of the 2nd Pennsylvania Militia Battalion, John M. Kelly of the 39th Illinois Volunteer Infantry and Private George Schmittle of the 13th Pennsylvania Calvary.