Six modern Special Forces soldiers enter a cave during a routine training mission in the Cumberland Mountains.
They come out in October 1862.
The Civil War is raging. Union and Confederate armies are fighting across Tennessee. The men still have their modern weapons, tactical gear, and military training-but their ammunition is useless. Every round they carry is a blank.
Stranded more than a century and a half in the past, Captain Christian Fullerton and his team must survive in a world where one wrong move could expose who they are, alter the course of the war, or erase the future they came from.
As they search for a way home, the soldiers are pulled deeper into the conflict. They encounter civilians, wounded soldiers, Confederate pursuers, Union troops, and men whose names belong to history. Among them is Alexander E. Fullerton of the 79th Illinois Infantry-a man connected to Christian's own family line.
Soon, survival is no longer the only mission.
Modern military knowledge begins to collide with nineteenth-century warfare. Decisions made in moments of desperation ripple outward. New weapons are imagined. Alliances shift. History begins to bend.
And once the past starts changing, no one can know what kind of future will be waiting for them-if they ever make it home.
Blanks in 1862 is a fast-paced military time-travel adventure blending Civil War history, Special Forces action, family legacy, faith, and alternate history.
They entered the past with blanks.
They changed the future with consequences.