Despair and Determination
Solomon Witcher is thought to be a traitor to the Confederate cause and a spy for the Yankees. The Surgets give a dinner banquet for Union civilian officials and military officers. Solomon travels to Vicksburg to facilitate a prisoner exchange for Sawyer Dundee. The Surgets are notified that Clifton will be the primary site for Federal defenses and will be destroyed. Solomon and Sawyer return to Natchez. Sawyer reveals that Solomon is not a traitor but a spy for the Confederate Secret Service. The two young cousins return to the war. Egiap, Zethro, and TaSondryana travel to the Dundee homestead and are arrested there by the Yankees. Solomon is sent on a mission to infiltrate the Loyal Order of Heroes of America, the Red Stringers. Sawyer awakens with only selective memory after a train crash and falls in with Mosby’s partisans. Egiap is sent to the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, D. C. Solomon returns to his role of CSA spy.