New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (2022) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first adult novel by this award-winning author, a "Civil War novel based on the experiences of the African Brigade, a unit of Black soldiers, including many freed, recently enslaved people, that in 1863 poured into the coastal South with Union forces, helping to hunt down rebel guerrillas. The impact these soldiers had on the South was baneful. The formerly enslaved people boomed 'Go Down Moses' as they marched. The blue coat was 'a dread costume on a freed slaves back'. A classic war story told simply and well, its meanings not forced but allowed to bubble up on their own." (NY Times) This novel focuses on one of the actual soldiers in that unit - Sgt. Richard Etheridge, the son of an enslaved woman and her master, who was taught to read and write. 290 pp. ISBN: 978-0802159199.