Flags Over Texas Author:William A. Luckey It was a battle between living and dying, a field where survival was a sadistic game of chance.... — Jim Henry McCraw was a shy boy locked inside six feet of Texas leather and spit, a true son of hell. Raised on the cursed Texas despolado, where he watched his family slaughtered by Indians, he drifted to wherever folks had settled, an outsider in... more » an untamed land. There was only one chance to belong and Jim Henry took it -- he joined the Texas Mounted Rifles, a rough-riding division of the new Confederate Army.
But for Jim Henry, the war wasn't between the Blue and the Gray. He was a trapped man fighting the destructive forces in nature and in himself, caught between violent emotions and the order to kill. And whether the men were good or evil, the bullets killed them just as dead. Because gone forever were chivalry and gallantry -- the ravaged landscaper of modern war had emerged....« less