Starving on a federal reservation, Dakota Indians attack settlers and soldiers in 1862 in Minnesota.

The story of a train in 1865, transporting $450,000 that gets robbed, with the thieves taking off with $180,000.

When their brother Frank is killed by an outlaw, brothers Bob Dalton, Emmett Dalton and Gray Dalton join their local sheriff's department. When they are cheated by the law, they turn to crime, robbing trains and anything else they can steal from over the course of two years in the early 1890's. Trying to out do Jesse James, they attempt to rob two banks at once in October of 1892, and things get ugly

Follows General William T. Sherman's 1865 Union push from Savannah, Georgia, into South Carolina. The film details the campaign's battlefield clashes at Broxton and River's Bridge, a rare Union cavalry defeat at Aiken, and the continued Union advance toward Columbia and North Carolina.

In the aftermath of "Uprising" and "The Attack on Fort Ridgely", Colonel H. H. Sibley establishes a military tribunal to place the captured Dakota on trial for their actions. Lead by Lieutenant Olin and appointed commissioners, the US Army seeks revenge, but at what cost?

The Battle of Camden illustrates the struggle of Southern patriots in their fight against the British in the second half of the Revolutionary War.

"The Burning of Atlanta" is the story of the destruction of a major city near the end of the war, and the desperation and terror this causes in the lives of those who watch their entire society collapse around them.

Jesse James is a famous outlaw. While many outlaws have encountered the Black Train, he feels unstoppable and tries to take on the train despite getting advice to the contrary.

When the Confederacy can no longer finance massive armies, Wade Hampton III, using his own money started, financed, and supplied his own infantry, cavalry, and artillery to help fight the war.

After the United States Congress redirected its attention to the Civil War and stopped making treaty land payments to the Dakota Indians, causing their people to starve, an uprising began that would later be called "The Dakota Wars."