Gray & Blue

<p><strong><em>He took an oath to fight. He just didn't realize it was for the wrong reasons.</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p>Steaming South on the Mississippi River to enlist in the Confederate Army Lummy Tullos leaves behind the life he always wanted. With little training and even less experience as a soldier he joins the 27th Louisiana Volunteer Infantry to face the approaching Yankee juggernaut marching on Vicksburg. His singular purpose is to protect home and family from the blue invader. </p><p><br></p><p>Enduring heat cold horrific assaults sickness privation and starvation through a forty-seven day siege it is his comrades in the trenches-gray and blue alike-who give him hope... until tragedy strikes him to the core. With death at every turn and little prospect of ever seeing home again he begins to question his commitment his faith and the nation for which he fights suffers and kills. How can he honor his oath to the Confederacy when he no longer believes in the cause it defends?</p><p><br></p><p>Lummy pushes forward until the battle for Vicksburg is lost. As he marches with his defeated army under the conquering Union flag he comes to realize that the greatest surrender will be within.</p>