Since a childhood fever, the narrator has suffered a peculiar malady: at times he loses the power to recall what has just happened. When the Civil War comes he enlists, endures defeat and disgrace in the early campaigns, breaks his musket, and is drawn into scouting and spying, slipping through the enemy lines at night on missions where his affliction becomes both a danger and a strange advantage.
An unusual Civil War novel that turns a soldier’s private affliction into the engine of a spy story. Download the free EPUB.
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