Rally Cry

Rally Cry is a science fiction novel by American writer William Forstchen, first published in 1990. It is the first book in Forstchen's Lost Regiment series. Its plot follows the Union Army's 35th Maine Volunteer Infantry and 44th New York Light Artillery as they board a transport ship, the Ogunquit, in City Point, Virginia, on January 2, 1865. Their mission is to take place in the amphibious assault of Fort Fisher, the Confederate fort defending Wilmington, North Carolina.