The Richmond Raid

By: John Brick

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Synopsis: Major Hank Stephens was forced to leave West Point in 1860 when he married a girl who told him she was pregnant by him. After the war began, Kate Farnham married a fellow West Point man who left to fight for the Confederacy. She began an affair with Stephens, which lasted throughout the war. Kilpatrick, an overly ambitious man, takes the command away from Stephens just before the raid begins, and the disaster that results affects the lives of all concerned. Sergeant Terlie, whose wife badly wants a child to help fill the aching void left by the deaths of her children by her first marriage, rides away on the raid the day after she learns that, once again, she isn't pregnant. Johnny Watkins is helped by a Rebel girl after he is seriously wounded, and must decide whether to honor his promise to her and her father, a deserter from the rebel army. Hank Stephens, tired and bitter about the mismanagement of the campaign, is captured and confined in prison, where he is confronted by Royce Farnham, Kate's husband. Royce has previously sustained a serious injury, but is working on General Bragg's staff. However, Kate comes to Richmond to be near Hank, and nurses her husband who has serious complications from his wound.