From the dawn of mankind... Through America's Civil War and into the distant future... Two ancient gods have made romance and waged war... After the Great Rapture... Will Sky Parlor become their final battlefield? Do we ever really die? Or, do we return to live again with those we knew before? In the future, will man and machine learn to procreate? For generations, the population of Sky Parlor has believed that, long ago, the lands beyond their domed city were made uninhabitable during the ""Great Rapture"". When young Desmond Starr is appointed Alderman for Sky Parlor's borough of Columbia, he is guided by a benevolent spirit during a dream's strange vision and learns a hidden truth, exposing a shocking lie that has persisted for centuries. As rumors of a vast deception spread among Sky Parlor's population, the president proposes what appears to be the perfect solution: an inspiring journey to a mysterious and distant world! But does this grand proposal mask an ulterior agenda?

Civil War diaries and memoirs of inhabitants of besieged Vicksburg and soldiers reveal the heroism and sacrifice that marked the Confederate experience.

Includes the decisions of the Supreme Courts of Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi, the Appellate Courts of Alabama and, Sept. 1928/Jan. 1929-Jan./Mar. 1941, the Courts of Appeal of Louisiana.