Reunited with Captain Marshalton and Johnny Applebee following the battle at Gettysburg, Duane journeys with them to become part of General David Birney's division of the Army of the Potomac. But the spring campaigns begin and a decision is put on hold._x000D_ _x000D_ TOWARD THE END OF THE SEARCH follows Duane's experience through the horrible slaughter during the weeks from The Wilderness, to Spotsylvania Court House, to Cold Harbor. There events and a letter about his pa send him from the war to return homeward in the company of Jonah Christopher, the young son of a Yankee sutler.