During the American Civil War, there were entire sections of America where the people prefered neither side in the life and death struggle for the soul of America. In East Tennessee the Smoky Mountains was one such place. When the sectional fighting was finally forced upon the sturdy pioneers of that region, a war within a war broke out and turned more vicious than anyone could have ever imagined. One man caught up in the terrible circumstanes of that time was James Thomas Kelley. Follow him as he is forced to choose sides in a war that he didn't want.