In this Civil War time travel novella, Daniel Rodin, a black, retired Brigadier General is thrust into the past via a weather anomaly. He is captured by the Confederates and meets Robert E. Lee. He fears that the items he carries will spur the Confederate general to change his tactics and win at Gettysburg, possibly changing the outcome of the war. He needs to escape and try to get back to where he arrived in the past, hoping to return to the future before history is changed.