There's trouble in Texas. John Whyte late colonel Union Cavalry Corps is Alan Pinkerton's newest detective and he's more than ready to answer the call for help from his friend and former commander General Phil Sheridan. Some unreconstructed rebels are intimidating and driving out of Texas the Union tax collectors. In addition murderous outlaws who have no regard for human life are robbing nearly every Union Army payroll shipment. Are the two seemingly separate problems somehow connected? If so why? John Whyte is going to find out and if trouble comes his way because of it then let the lead...

Doctor Travis Sasser, the chief surgeon of General Hood s Texas Brigade, has served with distinction since the beginning of the war. Unfortunately, he is captured during the Chattanooga campaign and sent to the POW camp at Rock Island, Illinois. As the time drags by and the war nears its end, Travis receives word that his family s ranch in Texas is about to be grabbed by carpetbaggers for nonpayment of taxes. In desperation he breaks out of prison along with his medical orderly, Homer Waites, and Jake Wheeler, a crusty sergeant from Nathan Forrest s cavalry corps. Jake knows where some Union...