Once They Wore the Gray

Publisher Marketing: FIGHT OR DIEFor Sergeant Gil Metairie and other Confederate prisoners during the War Between the States, life in captivity was more dangerous than fighting in the front lines. Every day brought more casualties from weakness or disease. The deplorable conditions forced many prisoners--including Gil--to become "Galvanized Yankees," former Confederate soldiers who joined the Union Army to fight Indians out West. But life on the frontier was no easier for Gil and the others. They soon learned that no one there was glad to see them. The Union troops didn't trust them, and the Indians were looking only for a way to rid their lands of all white men forever. Surrounded by enemies, the Galvanized Yankees had to fight harder than ever to survive--battling threats on both sides of the fort's walls. Contributor Bio:  Boggs, Johnny D Johnny D. Boggs has worked cattle, shot rapids in a canoe, hiked across mountains and deserts, traipsedaround ghost towns, and spent hours poring over microfilm in library archives -- all in the name of findinga good story. He's won several Spur Awards from Western Writers of America and the Western HeritageWrangler Award from the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum. A native of South Carolina, Boggs spent almost fifteen years in Texas as a journalist. Boggs now lives with his wife Lisa and son Jack inSanta Fe.