Reunited with Captain Marshalton and Johnny Applebee following the battle at Gettysburg, Duane journeys with them to become part of General David Birney's division of the Army of the Potomac. As the army prepares to begin its spring campaign, Duane is told he must leave the army due to his blindness. This story follows Duane's experience through the horrible slaughter during the weeks from The Wildnerness, to Spotsylvania Court House, to Cold Harobr. There events and a letter about his pa send him from the war to return homeward in the company of Jonah Christopher, the young son of a Yankee sutler.