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.
Gary Solomon finds a harsh homecoming when he returns to his Tennessee mining town, and the same strained relationships, after fourteen years and attempts to make amends with his father and the son he left behind.
Twenty years after witnessing her best friend Samantha's kidnapping, FBI Special Agent Peggy Weaver stumbles upon pornographic pictures taken of Samantha by her abductor and thinks she may have found the clue she needs to finally bring the kidnapper to justice and maybe forgive herself for escaping the same fate.