![]() ![]() He will travel around Texas seeking fame and fortune as a musician. After the surrender, Simon and Doris go their separate ways. There the quick-thinking, audacious fiddler can't help but notice the lovely Doris Mary Dillon, an indentured girl from Ireland, who is governess to a Union colonel's daughter. Weeks later, on the eve of the Confederate surrender, Simon and his bandmates are called to play for officers and their families from both sides of the conflict. Luckily his talent with a fiddle gets him a comparatively easy position in a regimental band. But following a barroom brawl in Victoria, Texas, Simon finds himself conscripted, however belatedly, into the Confederate Army. Till now, twenty-three-year-old Simon Boudlin has evaded military duty thanks to his slight stature, youthful appearance, and utter lack of compunction about bending the truth. ![]() About the Book "In March 1865, the long and bitter War between the States is winding down. ![]()
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