Pretty Quadroon by Charles L. Fontenay — Read

"Once a man has chosen a path to follow, there's / no turning back. But what if the die could be / recast and we could retrace our steps when we / chose the wrong one... and choose another?"

General Beauregard Courtney sat in his staff car atop a slight rise and watched the slow, meshing movement of his troops on the plains south of Tullahoma, Tennessee. Clouds of dust drifted westward in the lazy summer air, and the dull boom of enemy artillery sounded from the north.