Gray & Blue: A Story of the Civil War

by Anthony Wood

He took an oath to fight. He just didn’t realize it was for the wrong reasons.

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.

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?

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.

309 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 16, 2022

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Reviews

[Don Money]

The second book in this series continues the harrowing tale of Lummy Tullos and his quest to right the wrongs that have befallen him. Lummy and the cast of characters that surround him are people you can’t help but root for. Just like the first book the setting really takes in the role of another character in the book. The authenticity in which Anthony Wood tells this story will leave you immersed in his storytelling.

[Janice Tolifson]

Lummy Tullos joins the confederate army but doesn't believe in slavery. It describes some of the battles he fought in and finds out his wife has died. They had just married before he joined the army.