America just before and during the Civil War, as seen through the eyes of. John's first assignment takes him to the trial of abolitionist John Brown where he meets and befriends the mysterious Jonas Steele, a former Jayhawker and Pinkerton detective. NR TV-14 141 min Action, Drama, History 1982. The drama begins in 1859 when John Geyser, the primary protagonist, becomes bored with life on the farm and travels to Pennsylvania to work as an artist correspondent for the newspaper of his uncle Jacob Hale, Sr. The Hales are pro-Union and anti-slavery but like many northerners at the time they hope for a peaceful solution to the nation's problems. The lone exceptions in the family is son John, an artistic young man who becomes sympathetic to the plight of southern slaves and free blacks. The Geysers are generally indifferent to the issue of slavery but are sympathetic to the Southern cause. The Hales own a small newspaper in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
The Geysers are southern farmers from Charlottesville, Virginia.
American Civil War Synopsis The plot revolves around the families of two sisters Maggie Geyser and Evelyn Hale. Columbia Pictures Television Genre TV Series.
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