Three and a half years as a Confederate soldier and another year and a half in a prisoner of war stockade had made Jack Salter wonder at times if he'd even survive. When the war was over he was released and made a bee line for home. Vicksburg Mississippi. The only family he had left a cousin named Odell had taken care of his few possessions, a pair of mules and an old wagon while he was gone. After trying to talk his cousin into it without luck,...