This is a novel that explores "what might have been" had Lt. Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson survived the Battle of Chancellorsville. In October 1861, Jackson proposed a bold plan to his superior officer, Maj. Gen. Gustavus Smith: to cross the Potomac into Pennsylvania and "destroy industrial establishments wherever we found them close the coal mines, seize and, if necessary, destroy the manufactories and commerce of Philadelphia " Through his friend, Cong. Alexander Boteler, he urged the Davis Administration to adopt his plan. In February 1863, after a winter of talks with General Robert E.

Lee, he ordered his Topographer, Jed Hotchkiss, to make him maps of the roads to Philadelphia, and to keep it a "profound secret." Together, Lee and Jackson plan a campaign to invade Pennsylvania in the summer of 1863, capture Philadelphia, overturn the Lincoln administration, secure European recognition, resolve the Slavery Question, and win independence for the Confederate States of America.