 In a last-ditch effort to intercept the barge before it can be sunk at sea, Pitt commandeers the riverboat "Stonewall Jackson" and enlists the help of 40 members of the Sixth Louisiana Regiment of Confederate re-enactors.Armed with smooth bore muskets, as well as two Napoleon cannons that fire improvised charges, they launch an attack against the Bougainville's crew of stone-cold killers armed with automatic weapons, while Pitt attempts to board the barge and rescue Smith and Margolin before it is too late.The author quotes Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "The Arrow and the Song"