Uses analysis by historians and rangers from the National Park Service, quotations from eyewitnesses and reenactors to give a detailed account of four of the Civil War's most pivotal and bloody battles: Gettysburg, Antietam, Shiloh, and Cold Harbor.
In the summer before World War I, nine-year-old Anna is happy to spend a week at her aunt and uncle's Beltsville, Maryland, farm until she meets Theodore, who calls her a "city slicker" and spurs her to prove that she's just as clever and brave as he is.
While exploring the basement of his new house in Westminster, Maryland, Ben puts on an old jacket and boots that he finds and is suddenly transported back to the time of the Civil War.
Rock guitarist Chris Nielson agrees to house-sit a friend's palatial Maryland beach house, hoping to get his creative juices flowing once again, but instead of a relaxing vacation, Chris finds himself involved in a deadly game of cat and mouse.