Historical figure Malinda Blalock dresses as a boy so that she can join her husband in the Confederate Army during the Civil War and they eventually become do-gooder outlaws known throughout the Appalachians. The story is brought into the present by Civil War re-enactment actors camped out in the Appalachians, who are confronted with Civil War ghosts. It is up to locals Rattler and Nora Bonesteel to quell the ghosts' hostilities.