John Nixon

At the outbreak of the Civil War, Pennsylvanian George Hazard is recommissioned in the Union Army, while his friend and former West Point classmate, Orry Main, becomes a a Confederate general.

As the Civil War rages, Confederate general Orry Main weds his beloved Madeline; shares a bittersweet reunion with his old friend, Yankee colonel George Hazard.

General George Hazard is captured and jailed in a dreaded Confederate prison, run by a brutal commandant, while General Orry Main is wounded.

Bittersweet reunions and tragedy befall both the Hazard and Main families in the wake of the Civil War, but the bond of friendship sealing George Hazard and Orry Main is reaffirmed.

While George shatters the dreams of power masterminded by Isabel and Stanley, Orry takes aim at the conspiracy against the Confederacy.