West of Yesterday

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The Federals were winning the last major conflict of the Civil War, as weakened Confederates, fighting beneath tattered banners, failed to dent the impenetrable blue lines. The men in gray were pressed back and back until, panic overtaking them, they broke and fled. Maneuvers of Confederate cavalry proved futile when the break came.

Even before the final sacrificial charge had started, Major Garth Haldane, Eighth Texas Cavalry, twice woundeda chunk of lead in his shoulder and an angry gash across one thighhad been ordered to the rea in charge of his sergeant, Judd Taggert.

Night found them cut off from the remnants of their regiment, as Taggert peered through the fog at Federal patrols. The news he obtained from stragglers was heartbreaking. There was no Confederate army; there were only scattered individuals and groups to be rounded up by the blue-clad patrols. There, the survivors would be given the choice of surrender and signing on oath of allegiance to the United States, or facing a firing squad. Judd Taggert knew that he and his major would never surrender. Somehow, he had to get Garth to safety, where he could recover from his wounds, and then they would start the long trail to Texas.