And the Walls Came Tumbling Down

The Civil War is in its early stages when Joshua Stone leaves his home in
rural North Carolina to help protect his family and to seek adventure.
Joshua is taken to a training camp where he learns to soldier and
becomes close to five other recruits who are his tent mates. He experiences
war first hand at the battle of Fredericksburg. There he kills three enemy
soldiers. He then begins to question the rightness of taking another life.
One dark night, at the battle of Chancellorsville, he shoots a shadowy
figure who turns out to be his own general Stonewall Jackson. From
this point forward he can no longer shoot at another man. His group
of buddies dwindles to three. And now he is running across the fields at
Gettysburg as a part of Picketts charge. His two remaining companions
are killed and he leaves something on the battlefield that will tie him to
Stonewall Jackson for the rest of his life.



The story explores the issues of
the justified killing of another human being, the treatment of negroes
and the effects of war on soldiers both physically and mentally.