The Scott Boys

From East Tennessee, the Scott family faces Civil War

confl icts. One brother and his son decide to fi ght for the

Southern Cause, while four other brothers escape into

Kentucky to join the Union Army, fi ghting against slavery

and preserving the Union. Th e Scott family adheres to

the Presbyterian faith as Covenanters, embracing Native

American perspectives, combining those values to provide

guidance through a most challenging time.

Th e family members who remain in East Tennessee are

subjected to suff ering from the plundering bushwhackers

who see the Scott family allegiance to the Union as cause

for punishment. Th at retribution also applies to slaves with

whom the Scotts live as farmers, loggers and millers, all

working the land of others.

How THE SCOTT BOYS approach the decision to fi ght,

how they react during events, and how they face the fears

and the mental challenges of war are presented with the

realization that none of us knows for certain what those

feelings were like in 1860. Follow each brother through

the war during battle, in prison, marching, and dealing

with the harshness of exposure to the weather. Many of

the characters portrayed are real life men and women. Th e

locations are all actual.