Follow two Texas brothers who are separated by the Civil War and take completely different paths in life.

Billy becomes a soldier in the Confederate army and Jimmy transforms himself from farmer to a reporter for the Austin American Statesman newspaper.

While one brother is fighting the war, the other brother is reporting on the war and covering battles all over Texas, and even participates in one of them.

Learn how their love for each other endures and is instrumental in their ironic reuniting.