This is the Civil War as seen through the eyes of six young West Point graduates: George Armstrong Custer, Stephen Dodson Ramsuer, Henry Algernon du Pont, John Pelham, Thomas Lafayette Rosser, and Wesley Merritt. At the military academy they forged bonds stronger than brotherhood, but a few short years later had to choose between blue and gray, even facing each other on opposite sides of battlefields.

Benny Havens -- Two key institutions -- Cadet days -- Impending disunion -- The fighting begins -- Fighting on the Peninsula -- Second battle of Bull Run -- Battle of Antietam -- The battle of Fredericksburg -- Battle of Chancellorsville -- The battle of Gettysburg -- The wilderness -- Battle of Spotsylvania -- The Shenandoah Valley -- Cavalry clashes -- Tora, tora, tora -- Cloudburst -- Counterattack -- Valley conquest and Rosser's raids -- Appomattox campaign -- Old soldiers.