The Battle at Elderbush Gulch
Overview
Two young girls are sent away to live with their uncle, which sets off a chain of events resulting in an Indian attack on the town.
Two young girls are sent away to live with their uncle, which sets off a chain of events resulting in an Indian attack on the town.
Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is captured in battle, nurse Elsie Stoneman petitions for his pardon. In Reconstruction-era South Carolina, Cameron founds the Ku Klux Klan, battling Elsie's congressman father and his African-American protégé, Silas Lynch.
The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.