From East Tennessee, the Scott family faces Civil War
confl icts. One brother and his son decide to fi ght for the
Southern Cause, while four other brothers escape into
Kentucky to join the Union Army, fi ghting against slavery
and preserving the Union. Th e Scott family adheres to
the Presbyterian faith as Covenanters, embracing Native
American perspectives, combining those values to provide
guidance through a most challenging time.
Th e family members who remain in East Tennessee are
subjected to suff ering from the plundering bushwhackers
who see the Scott family allegiance to the Union as cause
for punishment. Th at retribution also applies to slaves with
whom the Scotts live as farmers, loggers and millers, all
working the land of others.
How THE SCOTT BOYS approach the decision to fi ght,
how they react during events, and how they face the fears
and the mental challenges of war are presented with the
realization that none of us knows for certain what those
feelings were like in 1860. Follow each brother through
the war during battle, in prison, marching, and dealing
with the harshness of exposure to the weather. Many of
the characters portrayed are real life men and women. Th e
locations are all actual.
