In the fall of 1865, Confederate prisoner of war Cole Terry returns to post-war Mississippi consumed with anger and hellbent on vengeance. Spurning his wartime promise to the beautiful Annabelle Gardner, he sets out to thwart Sam Caruthers, the stepfather who betrayed him and the Confederacy. Fate hands Cole the means to intercept Sam's long-sought settlement of an old Revolutionary War claim amounting to a fortune in Yankee gold...