<p>Tormented by Southern partisans Missouri farm boy Caleb Cole joins the Union’s 18th Missouri. About the same time down on the Texas coast violin-playing Ryan McCalla from a well-to-do family enlists in the Confederacy’s 2nd Texas—mainly in the spirit of adventure—with some friends.</p><p>The two teenagers are about to grow up quickly.</p><p>Fate will bring the two together—along with a teen-age girl from Corinth Mississippi when the Confederate and Union armies clash at Shiloh Tennessee and then again in the town of Corinth.</p><p>They will learn that war is far from glorious.</p>