Uncommonly Tenacious Soldiers

Historical Background Note for Volume 1, Chapter 5: The character General Lucian Southwick was inspired by resolute Confederate General Joseph Shelby, Texas Governor Pendleton Murrah, and others who similarly kept fighting well after the Civil War had drawn to a close; also by Japanese Lt. Hiroo Onoda, who refused to believe that World War II had ended and fought the good fight for twenty-nine years after his comrades had called it quits.

Read more about these uncommonly tenacious soldiers:

• Joseph Shelby
• Pendleton Murrah
• Hiroo Onoda