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.
A farm girl from the mountains of what would become West Virginia leaves home to join a group of rebel raiders who strike Federal Army encampments during the Civil War.
Three young people from very different backgrounds--the son of a wealthy New Mexican rancher, a Navajo slave, and a young Texan soldier--who find themselves held for ransom by a pair of horse thieves learn to look beyond their differences.
Discusses the battle between The Monitor and The CSS Virginia and the outcome, as well as the development of guerrilla warfare developed by John Singleton Mosby.
