Confederate Colonel Eric Schmidt has been given the most challenging assignment of his career-deliver two regiments from Texas across the Mississippi River-the same month that General US Grant crushed rebel forces in Vicksburg and takes full control of the mighty river. How can he possibly succeed with no Confederate Navy at his disposal?Captain George R. Reeves is recruited to led a company of volunteer cavalry, and decides to bring his slave Bass Reeves along as his manservant. What fate awaits them both as his regiment gets ordered to supplement the beleaguered rebel armies fighting in Mississippi and Tennessee?Three paths from vastly different stations in life cross in the dramatic saga of No Time To Die.