The Perilous Road is an American Civil War novel by William O. Steele, published in 1958.

[1] Chris Brabson is a boy whose family lives in the mountains of eastern Tennessee during the Civil War.

When Chris finds out that there is a wagon train in the area, he alerts a friend of his, Silas Agee, who claims to be a Confederate spy.

When he gets to the wagon train in search of Jethro, he is kindly greeted by Union troops who offer him food and conversation.

He begins to change his perspective of the Yankees, having learned that they are not the hateful thieves he once viewed them as.