November, 1864. General William T. Sherman has taken Atlanta, and, with the city destroyed and out of the war, moved westward, planning to take Savannah and cut the Confederacy in half...
Amy Lou was just eighteen and hungry for food - and when she went searching for it she got snatched by a couple of straggler Yankees. They were about to have their way with her when her sister intervened, killing the man on top of the young woman. That was the start of their problems for a regular unit in the Army were dispatched to find the stragglers.
When they caught up with the girls, they had much more persuasive means to make the women do exactly what they wanted. Captain Wingarde had a plan to make them forget they were proud daughters of the Confederacy -- and turn them into nothing more than simple slaves, and in his mind slaves could be made to walk naked and yoked and serve their new Yankee masters.