This is a novel tightly wound with real characters and events during 1864 America. Though battles are a major component of this book, this is a story with deep cultural roots in this time and place. Blue-Gray Mist and a Black Dawn is about those people whose lives were consumed by the American Civil War. Whether Black and White, North and South, these were the Americans who endured and went on to build the America, warts and all, that we know today.