A sprawling novel focuses on the burgeoning revolution in 19th-century
    Texas.  …a substantial piece of thoughtful historical fiction.
                        —Kirkus Reviews

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In the Texas Revolution of 1836, fighters and those fleeing after the Alamo and Goliad brace for a last clash. Born in Mexico’s San Antonio, Captain Juan Seguin risks all in championing the break-away republic. Private James Trezevant, one of few Georgia Battalion survivors, makes his way toward the attack at San Jacinto. The Harper women scramble for the safety of the American border. Yarico and anyone else identified as a slave stay wary during calls for “liberty or death.”
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Judith Austin Mills has given us an impressive third volume in her moving saga of the birth of Texas. This novel of survival, struggle and redemption is character driven and emotionally charged from beginning to end. We see the battlefield intimately, not just heroically, and the hard won happiness of the "winners" has its cost. The Dove Shall Fly is not just a fine novel by an extraordinary writer, but a tribute to morality not often seen in our times.
—Sharon Kahn, Scribner novelist, University of Texas Press author
The Dove Shall Fly is a moving tale of adventure and sacrifice driven by characters torn from the pages of Texas history. All those who enjoy imagining themselves witnessing our rich past will love this book.
—Jeffrey Kerr, author of Lamar’s Folly and Seat of Empire
Another captivating novel by a master at historical detail. The interlocking stories of three Texas Revolution participants grip from the first page.
—Karen Casey Fitzjerrel, award winning historical fiction author of Forgiving Effie Beck and The Dividing Season

Acknowledgments     6
Truth in the Telling     11

In This Forgotten Spot     13
Chapter 1     Scattered Angels     15
Chapter 2     Long Lullaby     28
Chapter 3     Tendrils     43
Chapter 4     A Day of Reversals     54
Chapter 5     The Approach of Thunder     67
Chapter 6     What’s in a Name?     80
Chapter 7     Along Comes Chaos     99
Chapter 8     Farewell, Light Heart     116
Chapter 9     No Way But Forward     137
Chapter 10     The Shortest Dreams of Mercy      151
Chapter 11     Riding the Aftermath     155

The Hum of Elegies     163
Chapter 12     A Hard Path Home     165
Chapter 13     Long Shadows    182
Chapter 14     Remains of a Battalion    199
Chapter 15     Word of Mouth     217

Celestial Fire     233
Chapter 16     Past Meets Prologue—New Orleans, 1839     235
Chapter 17    To See What He Could See—Near Seguin, 1856     249
Chapter 18     Again at a Riverbank—Austin, Texas, 1869     268
Chapter 19     Blessing in a Bottle—Yucatan, 1726     286

Afterword293
Sources297
About the Author299