Winfield Scott Hancock is a one-man quartermaster in the small village of Los Angeles, California, also yearning for life closer to the "action," and like Lee, finds himself frustrated by a career that seems to be too far removed from the attention of his superiors. Jackson is an ill-equipped professor at the Virginia Military Institute who suffers enormous personal tragedy, and yearns for the exciting life he had known briefly as a soldier in the Mexican War. Army stagnate into an unfulfilling conclusion to a life that has kept him far from his home, and the growth of his family. Robert E Lee is a frustrated cavalry officer in Texas, watching his 30-year career in the U.S.
The story follows four main characters from 1858 to the eve of the Battle of Gettysburg.
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