Why Prologue Might Be Better Than Back Story

Click on the Trails and Rails tab above to read my post about why I decided to use a scene originally planned as back story and changed it to a prologue instead. It is in there towards the end, I promise. Meanwhile, while you are reading with anticipation that the answer will really be there, enjoy learning a little bit more about the explosion of the steamboat S.S. Sultana and Alabama's Civil War Cahaba prison camp.