Daniel C. Chamberlain

In the grinding death mill of the trenches of Petersburg, Virginia, in the closing days of the Civil War, a Union sharpshooter -- a "long-shooter" named Ballou -- emerges as the best sniper in a war where wholesale slaughter became the norm. Ballou perfected the art of the judicious killer. His ability with his cherished Stephens target rifle is legendary, making a nearly miraculous shot that no one else -- North or South -- could accomplish. After the war, he disappears? Samuel Roark is a smal... more info>>