"The Last Confederate" gives some insight into the individual responses and the reasons for those responses, to the Civil War. It was not all about slavery.
Robert Adams is the son of land owners near Columbia, SC and is engaged to be married to Eveline, a governess from Pennsylvania.
As the war rolls in and battle ensues, they are both forced to look at themselves, their relationship, and their future.
Robert is captured and sent to a Northern prison in New York, while Eveline waits anxiously for word of Robert and her brother Nelson.
The movies follows Robert and Nelson through many adventures and hard decisions. Robert finally escapes and goes to Eveline's grandfather's farm in Pennsylvania.
This is a universal story of love, war, decisions, choices, and how two people can bend the world to their will in order to be together. Every audience can find something to identify with and root for in this epic.