At the beginning of the Civil War, Lula McLean's family home in
Manassas, Virginia, is taken over by the Confederate army and used as
its headquarters. Forced to flee by the oncoming Union army, Lula and
her family and her favorite rag doll move south to a small village
called Appomattox Court House. Then one day in 1865, Lula left her doll
behind, and what happened next made history.