Chapel Hill, NC Algonquin Books 2007. dj. Hardcover first edition - When Robey Childs's mother has a premonition about her husband, a soldier fighting in the Civil War, she sends her only child, age fourteen to find his father on the battlefield and bring him home. But not far from home, his horse becomes hesitant and he realizes the magnitude of his task. It takes the gift of a powerful and noble coal black horse to show him how to undertake the most important journey of his life. 218 pp. ISBN: 1565125215.