Road to Salem Church

In the third novel of Michael Ruffini's American Civil War series, Lieutenant Rufus Randall, Confederate States Army, is again sent north into Federal territory. His mission is to pick up a shipment of English made Whitworth Rifles and other supplies, obtained by Confederate spy Lilly Raintree, who is now based in Washington D.C. and running a smuggling operation. On the way back, he is tasked with liberating as many Confederate prisoners he can who are being used to construct...
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In the third novel of Michael Ruffini's American Civil War series, Lieutenant Rufus Randall, Confederate States Army, is again sent north into Federal territory. His mission is to pick up a shipment of English made Whitworth Rifles and other supplies, obtained by Confederate spy Lilly Raintree, who is now based in Washington D.C. and running a smuggling operation. On the way back, he is tasked with liberating as many Confederate prisoners he can who are being used to construct fortifications outside of the city. The mission is complicated by orders to assist Underground Railroad Conductor, the Reverend Oldsteen, to free four slaves who helped Oldsteen smuggle slaves out of the South before the war. Randall must face county sheriffs, Federal troops, and even his own men who object to smuggling slaves to freedom, as the Federal Army, now under Fighting Joe Hooker, moves to invade the South at the town of Chancellorsville.