These are the stories of struggles for survival by two members of the
same family, though 100 years apart and in two very different wars. One
takes place during our country's Civil War of 1861-1865 and follows the
life of 17-year-old Union infantryman William Smith of the 13th Regiment
of Indiana Volunteers, who was captured and survived captivity at the
infamous Andersonville Confederate Prison in Georgia. The other story
takes place 100 years later and a thousand miles away in Vietnam with
William Smith's great-grandson, 25-year-old First Lieutenant Hubert
Buchanan, shot down, captured, and surviving six and a half years in
North Vietnam prisons.