En una zona rural de Carolina del Sur y durante los últimos días de la Guerra Civil Americana, Augusta, su hermana adolescente Louise, y su joven esclava Mad, se han quedado solas para cuidar la granja de la familia. Con todos los hombres de la casa alejados hace tiempo debido a la guerra y ahora, presuntamente desaparecidos o muertos, las tres mujeres temen sobre su futuro en soledad. Pero lo que no saben es que el peligro está más cerca de lo que se imaginan.

Columbia's final release for 1950 was the Gene Autry western Indian Territory. Set during the Reconstruction Era, the story finds Autry working as an undercover agent for the U.S. cavalry. His mission: to neutralize a former Austrian army officer named Curt Raidler (Phil Van Zandt), who is leading a group of renegade Indians on a series of destructive raids.

Willie, a young Confederate soldier, joins forces with the bold and boisterous Lt. John Singleton Mosby and his notorious band of Civil War raiders. Befriended by a Yankee and aided by his beautiful cousin Oralee, Willie learns the power of love and war as he attempts dangerous scouting missions across the Virginia countryside. Infiltrating a Union brigade and capturing an enemy General are just two of the challenges Willie courageously faces in the early days of the War Between the States.

Performed by Constance Smith, Pauline Cushman-Fryer tells us how she became a Union Spy, got caught and was almost hanged, why Abraham Lincoln granted her the rank of Major, and how she died lonely in San Francisco from an overdose of opium.