En route to battle, a Confederate soldier and a Union soldier both make daily entries in small, leather-bound diaries. Historian Mark Nesbitt places their writings into the context of the Civil War.
The major facts of the Gettysburg campaign and battle are well known, but controversies about its outcome abound even today. No issue is more, contested than that of the whereabouts of the dashing cavalryman, Maj. Gen. J. E. B. Stuart.