War Wolves: 13 Men Came to Granbury

War Wolves

by D. K. Barnett

The year is 1903. The Civil War ended decades ago, but for the men who fought it, the war never truly stopped.

At a soldiers’ reunion in Granbury, Texas, veterans gather under the summer canvas — gray heads, stiff backs, and haunted eyes — to remember what the years have blurred. A photographer prepares to capture the moment, and as the lens opens, each man revisits the field where his soul was broken.

War Wolves tells their stories in voices worn thin by time and loss — the chaplain who learned that mercy dies faster than faith, the blacksmith who can’t strike an anvil without hearing artillery, the boy soldier who aged fifty years in a single afternoon at Shiloh. Together, they reveal the quiet war that followed the shooting one: a lifetime of silence, guilt, and endurance.

Told in the rugged, unflinching style of D. K. Barnett, War Wolves is not a story of generals or glory but of the men who came home and found no home left in themselves.

The war is over. The fighting never stopped.