Mary Johnston's THE LONG ROLL and CEASE FIRING are quite possibly the best Civil War novels ever written.' Cease Firing picks up where Mary Johnstons previous book, The Long Roll leaves off. We rejoin Richard Cleave, the Confederate artillery officer, as he fights to regain his reputation and his honor. In the process, he experiences the battles of Vicksburg, Gettysburg, Chickamauga, the Wilderness, Kennesaw Mountain and others. Cleave can sense that the war is being lost; and he is torn bet