Jim Ackland, who suffers from a head injury sustained in a bus crash, is the chief suspect in a murder hunt, when a girl that he has just met is found dead on the local common, and he has no alibi for the time she was killed.
A brilliant but disgraced Civil War general is sent to a sleepy Tennessee town for a second chance. As his risky tactics win battles, a dangerous affair with a married woman threatens to unravel everything—especially when her jealous husband is offered a fortune to end the general’s life.