Mississippi falls deeper into the Civil War as the horrors and suffering are brought by the Federal invaders to the citizens of Mississippi. Bill Ayer and his friends are not only fighting the invading Union Army, bent on taking Vicksburg but also their own soldiers that have deserted and turned to pillage and plundering of the people and resources of the state. Always a Southern Soldier is the second book of the series, Once a Southern Soldier, The life and adventures of Bill Ayer, my great grandfather in the Civil War.