The Lost Dispatch

The year is 1862. The Union Army is bleeding, and somewhere in the Confederate camps, a dispatch sits unnoticed that could change everything. Captain Guilfoyle volunteers for what every other officer refuses: slip behind enemy lines, infiltrate the rebel camps, and return with intelligence that might save thousands of lives. His weapon is not a rifle but a daring disguise, he becomes Salome, his own cousin, weaving through Southern territory with nothing but his wits and an audacious nerve. What follows is a game of masks within masks. Guilfoyle must think faster than the cavalry that pursues him, charm his way past suspicious sentries, and keep his true self buried beneath petticoats and pretense. Each step closer to the dispatch is a step closer to death. Written in 1889 by an anonymous author who lived through the war itself, this is historical fiction that remembers how it actually felt to risk everything on a single piece of paper.