"The Last Confederate Battle" is an action-packed adventure novel set in the War of Northern Aggression, otherwise known as the Civil War. It tells the stories of three brothers who were raised in the South, and who fought for the Confederate States of America. It also provides a look at President Lincoln as he manages a war he doesn't want to have to fight, profiteering by a band of marauding former Union soldiers, and mysterious murders, which prompts the president to call on the investigative skills of Allan Pinkerton and Franklin Stone, Chief of Detectives for the New York City Police Department.