Told in first person narrative and action through the eyes of a Union officer named Captain Ellison, Incident at Pittston Crossing is about a Civil War conflict between invading rebel forces and the man charged to stop them.
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Ordered to buy the Union forces time, one way or another, by Union General Logan, Ellison is somehow expected to hold off thousands of Rebel troops with a hundred men, using a stone farmhouse as his base of operations.
What follows is a blow by blow, almost minute by minute battle diary of how one man was ordered to defend a strategic crossroads with every available man he can gather at a short moment's notice, and how he sets forth to accomplish that order.
