The Cracker Army is six Confederate soldiers who were all that were left from a group of over one hundred and fifty volunteers traveling into Georgia to impede General Sherman's march on Atlanta, Georgia. While waiting to do battle with General Sherman's forces they come across a Union Officer who, in the delerium of his dying moments, divulges the existence of three Union Army wagons loaded with gold for the Union Army's payroll and going to Atlanta, Georgia. The six Confederates who have grown weary of the war and realizing that it can not be won, decide to make off with these gold wagons and split all of the gold between themselves to pay for their deprivations that the war has cost them.