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

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?

In the middle of Sherman's March, in eastern Georgia, Confederate infantry, cavalry, and artillery make a bold stand against the overwhelming numbers of the Union army as it tears across Georgia.

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."