Afton Mountain

In June, 1862, three brothers from Afton Mountain, are drafted into the Confederate Army. They did not believe in the war and did not perceive it as their war, and the cause they thought was for rich plantation owners, not states rights. Thirty years after the war, one of the brothers tells a secret he has kept about the death of the famous General 'Stonewall' Jackson. Parker Layton believed in the mountain idea of 'the code fuedelo' and believed what he did was an act of retribution upon a bully and a murderer. For the next thirty years he told the story of why he fired the first shot on that day in May of 1863.