Lexington, Kentucky, 1859. After saving John Hunt Morgan from a
puma attack, fifteen-year-old farm boy Will Crump joins Hunt's
militia, the Lexington Rifles. Morgan mentors Will and enrolls him
in the local university, where he hopes to study law. As tensions
rise between the North and South, Will is torn between his loyalty
to Morgan and his love for his family. Will's father, sisters, and
sweetheart follow the Union, while Morgan and Will commit to the
South. As part of Morgan's band, Will participates in ambushes and
unconventional warfare until his first real battle at Shiloh. He
fights bravely, but increasingly questions what the war is
accomplishing, and whether his devotion to honor has led him
astray. And where is God in all this killing? Will's sister
Albinia, friend of the Clay family, becomes increasingly aware of
the plight of the slaves. When she finds Luther, a slave she knows,
trying to escape, she must decide between her conscience, and her
friends. She becomes involved in the Underground Railroad, helping
slaves to freedom - but will it cost her love and her freedom?
Will's other sister, Julia, is approaching spinster status and
despairs of ever meeting a man who can give her more than life on a
farm until she meets Hiram Johannsen, a son of immigrants who owns
a steamship company. They marry and she makes a new life in the
North. When Hiram answers the call to fight for the North, Julia
runs the steamboat company in her husband's absence and uses her
boats to help Albinia ferry escaped slaves to freedom. Her business
relations put her in the perfect position to spy for the North.
When the Confederates capture her, will she survive? Luther is one
of the first slaves Albinia helps flee the South after his master
cruelly abuses his mother and sister. He escapes with his family,
and when war breaks out, he fights for the North as an auxiliary of
the Third Ohio Cavalry, alongside Julia's husband, Hiram, and
against Morgan and Will. Luther has to confront the demons of his
past, an abusive master, and a slave catcher that kills his little
sister. Will the desire for revenge destroy him? Throughout the
war, Will is forced to examine and question everything he believes
in-his faith in God, his love for his family, his loyalty to
Morgan, and his worth as a human being. Will and his family must
somehow mend the torn fabric of relationships to find peace, and
reach Across the Great Divide.
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