Coal Black Horse

<DIV> When Robey Childs's mother has a premonition about her husband a soldier fighting in the Civil War she does the unthinkable: she sends her only child to find his father on the battlefield and bring him home.<br><br> At fourteen wearing the coat his mother sewed to ensure his safety—blue on one side gray on the other— Robey thinks he's off on a great adventure. But not far from home his horse falters and he realizes the enormity of his task. It takes the gift of a powerful and noble coal black horse to show him how to undertake the most important journey of his life: with boldness bravery and self-posession.<br><br><I>Coal Black Horse</I> joins the pantheon of great war novels—<I>All Quiet on the Western Front The Red Badge of Courage The Naked and the Dead</I>.</DIV>