Where I'm Bound

A former slave turned cavalry scout becomes a hero for an African-American cavalry regiment in the Civil War. But as the war draws to an end the soldier Joe Duckett embarks on his most dangerous mission yet-to return to the plantation from which he escaped to find his wife and daughter.</p><p>A Washington Post Notable Book. Also a winner of the First Novelist Award from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association.</p><p>The important story of black soldiers in the Union Army has finally found a writer of historical fiction equal to the occasion. James A McPherson Professor of History Princeton University</p>