Very confusing, dull and uninteresting American civil war story told through the eyes of the "Eternal Soldier" I guess the author read a lot of Barry Sadler's "Casa The Eternal Mercenary" books. Somehow a Vietnam vet is transported through time, just like Casa. He enters peoples bodies and rights wrongs, I guess.
The first chapter confused the hell out of me. The soldier has so many name's and aliases that I couldn't keep it straight. Then the people around him have names and also looked like people our hero knew in other lives who had other names. I should of stopped there. There is very little action. A prison break is so boring I almost feel asleep. Just talking. Moralizing and pondering. This sounds cliche, but I wish I could go back in time and tell myself to skip this dog.
As a non-american I struggled to work out what was going on at the start. The protagonist is a confederate spy pretending to be a union spy pretending to be a confederate soldier that is now inhabited by the soul of a present-day US soldier. It took me a while just to remember which side kept slaves...