<p>Following the defeat of Confederate forces at Chattanooga the battered Rebel army including a bitter Cory Brannon retreats slowly toward Atlanta. A large Union army led by General William Sherman is marching to the coastal city of Savannah laying waste to the territory through which it passes. <P>Behind enemy lines on the Brannon family farm Henry has been removed as sheriff and to everyone’s surprise Cordelia is courted by a Union officer a Yankee she finds herself unable to hate. As Cory is trapped in Savannah surrounded by Sherman’s marauding hordes despair grips the Confederacy. <P>Fractured and defeated at every turn the nation asks itself how much longer it can continue to fight.<P>A Blackstone Audio production.</p>