Men and women from the Civil War period to the present day cross thresholds of time seeking answers, victory and closure. Their quests take them to the troop ships and battlefields of World War II; to islands in Alaska and New York. Others strive to exorcise malevolent, sadistic spirits from a Confederate soldier lying near death on a battlefield before Appomattox. This is the continuing saga of skirmishers from Ft. Shenandoah, caught up in the temporal mysteries begun For the Want of a Musket