Join Pastor Joshua Campbell

as he anguishes over accepting a calling as chaplain of his town's militia during the American Civil War. Feel his guilt as he disrupts the only life his family knows.

Follow him on the battlefields

where he makes a life-or-death decision amid the brutality of a confederate cavalry charge. Experience with him the living hell of field hospitals during the throes of battle.

Listen with him to the agonizing last breaths

of the young men he baptized as babies as he writes their final words to their families. Watch the secret battle he wages with God that drives him unmercifully and has him looking to a release that he has come to understand, but disdains.

See the life of an American Civil War chaplain come alive

in this debut novel, part one of a series.