This novel plunges the reader into the last agonizing years of the Civil War.Cattle from the Florida plains are needed to save a desperate South fromstarvation.... » 

This novel plunges the reader into the last agonizing years of the Civil War.Cattle from the Florida plains are needed to save a desperate South fromstarvation. But quicksand and snakefilled swamps Yankee raiders and viciousoutlaws block the trails between Florida and the rest of the Confederacy. Menlike Tree Hooker tough as alligator hide and quick with gun knife or whipreckon with Union forces and renegades when they take on the job of driving theherds. «