It is the 1860s and the Civil War is raging. Sixteen-year-old Sam Wood of Yazoo City, Mississippi is eager to serve on behalf of the South so he forges his grandfather's name and convinces his best friend Albert to join him and enlist in the Confederate Navy. Their ironclad ship is to sail down the Yazoo River to the Mississippi, running a dangerous gauntlet of Federal fleets. In author Jim Kilgore's stirring, fast-paced novel set in the south during the Civil War, young readers will relive the drama of the conflict and its devasting consequences through a courageous teenager's survival and journey into manhood.
