Yesterday's Reveille

They were soldiers young and brave in a war that would change America forever.

Some came from the gray cliffs of West Point. Some came from the bloody caldron of the Civil War. By train and steamship they traveled West to fight against an enemy battling for a way of life. They were the men of the U.S. Seventh Cavalrywhose name would echo in history.

Joe Murchison was a young officer who learned that no amount of training could prepare him for life and death on the frontier. Rising through the ranks, he fought toe-to-toe with an enemy who sometimes was not what he seemed. And above him loomed the dashing figure of George Custer, the man who would lead Joe and the Seventh Cavalry to glory and to tragedy.