A young soldier returns home from the Civil War carrying a terrible secret that threatens to estrange the only family he has left: his mother. A young soldier returns home from the Civil War carrying a terrible secret that threatens to estrange the only family he has left: his mother. A young soldier returns home from the Civil War carrying a terrible secret that threatens to estrange the only family he has left: his mother. A young soldier returns home from the Civil War carrying a terrible secret that threatens to estrange the only family he has left: his mother.