Fire Within: Copperheads and the Civil War

It is the spring of 1864. Captain Harrison Elington joins the Confederate army, once again, to help defeat the Union forces of Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant and General George Gordon Meade. Elington meets former Colonel Rutherford James in Virginia. As Grant begins his devastating Overland Campaign into Virginia, Copperhead Unionists devise a plan to ally Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the Confederacy with the clear intent of stopping the massacre of American soldiers. The Copperhead leaders want "the United States as it was, the Constitution as it is." Harrison Elington is placed into a secret mission that will help form the alliance. In this second novel chronicling the life of a soldier during the Civil War, the plot is set, the mission planned and the personnel recruited. In this provocative story, experience the horror of battle, the unimaginable sacrifices and the dilemma of command through the chaos and undetermined period of the Civil War. Cover Art by Mark Maritato, Civil War Battle Artist