Prologue: April 14, 1865 -- A Boy of the Buffalo Trace: 1825-55 -- A Man in Search of a Mission: 1856-61 -- Absalom Markland, Special Agent: 1861-62 -- "An Honored & Favored Man": February-September 1862 -- "The Flood of Letters": September 1862-64 -- "Twenty Tons of Mail": 1864 -- "Trains Have Stopped Running, Except for the Mail": January-April 1865 -- "A Mark of Friendship and Esteem": April 1865-November 1868 -- "Our Continued Services Together": 1868-71 -- The "Colonel" Becomes a "General": 1872-84 -- A Man in Search of Himself: 1885-88 -- Epilogue: 1889-Today
Summary
""Delivered Under Fire" tells the harrowing story of a U.S. Post Office special agent who risked his life to protect and transfer some of the most personal and valuable connections between war and home"-- Provided by publisher
