Blue Skies in the East

This is a compelling novel of life near the end of the War Between the States and of the conflict being waged in Mexico by followers of President Benito Juarez and Emperor Maximiliano. In the States the regular armies of the Confederate States are dwindling by attrition and losses sustained in constant combat and the renaging to exchange prisioners by the US but the irregular forces of the CS, who carve out victories help keep up the spirit of the population. Young officers and President Davis want to sustain the war thru the use of irregular warfare that is feared by President Lincoln. But the old officers in grey like Robert E. Lee do not support it. The life of a nation requires a desicion now.