The film opens in the turbulent years immediately following the U.S. Civil War. Deep-seated political resentments linger between the Confederate-leaning Hatfields and the Union-aligned McCoys.

This is a story of two cavalry generals: Hugh Kilpatrick on the Union side and Joseph Wheeler on the Confederate side.

Georgia, 1864. Desperate to escape an arranged marriage to her brutal neighbor, Willa Randall disguises herself as a boy and joins the confederate Cavalry

"Braveheart" meets "Gods and Generals."

The inhabitants of Blood River live by the mercy of Miss Isabella and her daughter, as long as they're loyal. But strangers to the town receive no such grace. When the rain of blood begins, the reign of blood will end.

"American Confederate" follows a group of Confederate cavalry, and a group of Union (Federal) cavalry, from late 1862 until the end of the Civil War in 1865.

In April 1781, Patriot forces rally in Camden under Gen. Greene, using militias to fight the British in a sprawling town-wide battle.