![]() ![]() The train is moving away from battle lines into the vast, unincorporated west, so Mercy can't imagine why they're so interested. What ought to be a quiet trip turns deadly when the train is beset by bushwhackers, then vigorously attacked by a band of Rebel soldiers. ![]() Reluctantly, Mercy buys a ticket and climbs aboard. Louis, the only Tacoma-bound train is pulled by a terrifying Union-operated steam engine called the Dreadnought. Reaching the Mississippi is a harrowing adventure by dirigible and rail through war-torn border states. Once there, she'll catch a train over the Rockies and-if the telegram can be believed-be greeted in Washington Territory by the sheriff, who will take her to see her father in Seattle. Mercy sets out toward the Mississippi River. On top of that, a telegram from the west coast declares that her estranged father is gravely injured, and he wishes to see her. Nurse Mercy Lynch is elbows deep in bloody laundry at a war hospital in Richmond, Virginia, when Clara Barton comes bearing bad news: Mercy's husband has died in a POW camp. ![]()
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