The only problem with that being that you know that several of the characters survive to appear in that novel. Malone wrote a sort of sequel called SOUTHING which I read first. This is an interesting story of a minor Civil War sideshow which drives home the fact that there is nothing minor about it to those caught up in it
The story is told from the viewpoints of several characters and switches amongst them freely and often. The fighting is brutal, no quarters stuff which is vividly described. In this novel, the Kickapoos are not entirely innocent as their encampment includes a group of notorious and vicious Jayhawkers come south searching for victims. If the Indians had been Comanches, attempting parlay may very well have been suicidal. Attempting to make up for their lack of numbers with surprise, the Texans attacked without parlay which would have revealed the truth - the encampment was of peaceful, but highly competent warrior, Kickapoo Indians. The Texans and a few Confederate troops thought they were attacking a large, hostile Comanche encampment. Fine historical novel based on the January 1865 Battle of Dove Creek and related events.
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