Conspicuous Gallantry is the long-awaited sequel to The Content of Character. Charlie Cooper has returned from a hitch with the US Marine Corps in Afghanistan and is scarred so badly he calls himself a freak. He is incapable of dealing with his family and his wife Annie, and only his dog Gibbs has the power to get though his shell. His best friend died protecting Charley on the battlefield; died protecting Charley with his own body, and Charlie heard and felt every bullet that hit him and killed him. He wakes screaming, but when he tries to see his friend Victor's face... all he sees is darkness. Charlie and Amanda try to struggle on, but are only treading water. Until they hit the wall, that is, and Annie tells him she wants a divorce. Charlie will try to do anything, but he is so badly broken he feels there is no hope left. Annie calls her Aunt Amanda and asks for help and with Amanda comes David Posey, her crazy husband. David suffers from Asperger's Syndrome and is himself damaged, but David has figured out how to survive. David and Amanda come to Maine to help them. What they can do is not certain, but the relationship that develops between David and Charlie slowly seems to lift Charlie out of his shell and a discovery by Army doctors has Charlie and Annie hoping for a breakthrough that will allow them to live happily again as man and wife. As the months drag on they eventually believe there is a way out of the darkness until in one screaming moment of sheer terror Charlie remembers the final instant before his life crashed down around him. And with the revelation he begins to walk through the valley of darkness again... but this time there is a light at the end of the road. Gibbs walks by his side, and they begin...

Official records produced by the armies of the United States and the Confederacy, and the executive branches of their respective governments, concerning the military operations of the Civil War, and prisoners of war or prisoners of state. Also annual reports of military departments, calls for troops, correspondence between national and state governments, correspondence between Union and Confederate officials. The final volume includes a synopsis, general index, special index for various military divisions, and background information on how these documents were collected and published. Accompanied by an atlas.

Series I: Contains the formal reports, both Union and Confederate, of the first seizures of United States property in the Southern States, and of all military operations in the field, with the correspondence, orders, and returns relating specially thereto, and, as proposed is to be accompanied by an Atlas. In this series the reports will be arranged according to the campaigns and several theaters of operations (in the chronological order of the events), and the Union reports of any event will, as a rule, be immediately followed by the Confederate accounts. The correspondence, etc., not embraced in the "reports" proper will follow (first Union and next Confederate) in chronological order. Volume XIV. 1885. (Vol. 14, Chap. 26) Chapter XXVI - Operations on the coasts of South Carolina, Georgia, and Middle and East Florida. Apr 12, 1862-Jun 11, 1863