When a Confederate soldier awakens in a Maryland hospital with no memory of who he is, the staff call him John Smith. Beside him lies Will Sims, a dying Union private who entrusts John with a final mission: to hand-deliver letters to his family after the war. John survives and fulfills Will's request, falling in love with Will's cousin Harriet and building a new life with her in Towson, Maryland. But twenty years later, a chance encounter with a priest from Norfolk reveals John's true identity-and the family he left behind. As he reconnects with his past, he must confront the trauma that erased it: the death of his brother at Gettysburg, witnessed in the same explosion that nearly killed him.
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