John Reagan left the Tennessee mountains to search for an education. In search of the life that he wanted, he set off to earn the money for that education and ended up in Texas. His life took many turns. Along the way, he got the education he longed for. In petite, pretty Edwina Nelms, he finally found the love and passion that he had searched for. Destiny had more in mind for John H. Reagan. He was to become a man of great integrity and foresight, whose unswerving courage and strength would lead him to a war he didn’t want and to positions of power that were not of his seeking.

His loyalty to his friends and to the cause for which they had all fought would finally bring him imprisonment. But his beliefs would carry through his whole life in the service to his country.