The Perilous Road Author:William O. Steele Chris Brabson hated the Union troops - and he had his reasons. Yankee raiders in the Tennessee mountains had stolen the newly harvested crops, all the meat supply laid by for the winter, and the Brabsons' only horse. A Union soldier had even taken Chris's deerskin shirt - the one for which he'd tanned and cured the hides so carefully - before ... more »he'd had a chance to wear it. Chris could not understand how his brother could have joined the Northern Army nor how his mother and father, despite their abhorrence of war and its destruction could fail to take sides. But one thing he did know - he would fight for the Confederacy....« less