Burnin' Daylight!

About The Book. As the author of Burnin' Daylight! Mr. Wallis provides a new, historic novel set in the period of the great American Civil War. A novel with more adventure.more romance.and more history of this critical period that shaped this nation and has become so fascinating for millions of Americans. The history of the early days of the Civil War is told through the actions and adventures of fictional characters in the style of Herman Wouk's The Winds of War and War and Remembrance. In the early days of 1861, two young men, one from a ranch in Texas and one from a farm in Iowa, leave the security of their homes and the love of their families to seek the adventure that may await each just over the next hill. While seeking to satisfy that wanderlust, they each volunteer to serve, on opposite sides, in this nation's bloodiest conflict. Thirteen months later, in the spring of 1862, they meet at the end of the second day of the most costly battle of the war's entire western campaign; the battle history would call Shiloh Church (Pittsburg Landing) in Tennessee.;The Union corporal having served out the time of his muster has become so personally devastated by the effects of his participation in five major battles in thirteen months; he makes the decision to leave the war for whatever new life he may find in the west. While scavenging the now deserted, ghostly battlefield for supplies for his trip, he encounters a severely wounded Confederate Officer. Resisting his months of training to kill this enemy and move on, he finally agrees to bind up the Confederate's wounds as they make an uneasy pact to help each other; the Yankee to his imagined new life out west away from the war and the Confederate to return to his home in Texas. During their nine month trip west, as they slowly begin to grow beyond their hatred and suspicion of each other, they are confronted by both Confederate and Union patrols, cross the flooded Mississippi River at night on a raft