They're young, desperate, dangerous—a long way from home, but a short way from Hell.
After Drew Dixon, an upright young man, is sent west by his religious family to avoid being drafted into the Civil War, he drifts across the land with a loose confederation of young vagrants.
Jake Rumsey
Drew Dixon
Big Joe
Arthur Simms
Hobbs
Orin
Loney
Marshal
Jim Bob Logan
Boog Bookin
Nolan
Mrs. Dixon