When Jeremiah Henderson and his girlfriend head for New York with high hopes for a better life, they never imagined they would become involved in a get-rich-quick scheme that forces them to flee the city, leaving behind a trail of violence.
Sixteen-year-old twins Susanne and Stephen leave their Gettysburg farm, one as a nurse and the other as a Union soldier, little knowing that their hometown will soon become the focus of the Civil War.