Originally published: Embrace an angry wind. 1st ed. New York : HarperCollins Publishers, ©1992.

A sharp wind is blowing -- A cupid on crutches -- Dark moon rising -- The president's watchdog -- Too much lion, not enough fox -- Affairs of the heart -- Courage versus common sense -- Words of wisdom -- Who will dance to Hood's music? -- Old slow trot -- In the best of spirits and full of hope -- Playing both ends against the middle -- The Spring Hill races -- Listening for the sound of guns -- A hand stronger than armies -- Do you think the Lord will be with us today? One whose temper is less fortunately governed -- Tell them to fight -- fight like hell! -- The pandemonium of hell turned loose -- Glorified suicide at the cotton gin -- Where is the glory? -- There is no hell left in them -- don't you hear them praying -- The thunder drum of war -- Forcing the enemy to take the initiative -- Gabriel will be blowing his last horn -- The sunny South has caught a terrible cold -- Let there be no further delay -- Matters of some embarrassment -- Now, boys, is our time! -- I shall go no farther -- Mine eyes have seen the glory -- Where the grapes of wrath are stored -- Crying like his heart would break -- A retreat from the lion's mouth -- The cards were damn badly shuffled -- The darkest of all Decembers -- Epilogue: the twilight's last gleaming.