April Wolff, a young Mennonite schoolteacher, returns home to find her family farm looted and her father dead, and sets out to enlist the help of Genreal Robert E. Lee in finding his killer.
While Thomas and George seem destined to represent their opposing sides at the Battle of Gettysburg, Mary's recovery may be the only thing that can stop her brother and cousin from killing each other.
In 1863, as the Civil War approaches his home in Gettysburg and he realizes that a big battle is about to begin, a freed slave named Abraham decides to join the ambulance corps of the Union Army.
A thirteen-year-old Mormon boy from California makes his way east, searching for his horse which was stolen for use by the Confederates in the Civil War.