Resolute Heart

In the days immediately following the Civil War, Yankee soldiers called bummers straggled home, emotionally ravaged, exhausted and hungry. Forced to steal what they needed along the way from weary families themselves devastated by war, they often left a wake of cruelty and violence in their wake.

One such bummer impulsively grabs Meg, an eighteen-year-old Tennessee farm girl who is home alone. The bummer, Stuart, stubbornly holds her for three days as they make their way north. But Meg is no...