PETE PETERSON. Thy Brother’s Blood. Melange Books. $15.95, www.melange-books.com.
Will and Joshua are both sons of Gulf Coast Texas rancher Jacob Standard, but Will is free and white while Josh is black and a slave. The twisting trails they track through the Civil War and the troubles that follow it, lead Will into Shelby’s Iron Brigade, and Josh into leadership of a bandit gang, among other hazards.