On the eve of the Battle of Fredericksburg, cowardly Private Gallant is determined to desert the Federal lines and make his way back home. However, when the fainthearted soldier happens upon four orphan girls in the midst of his flight, his plans are suddenly thrown into disarray. Now he has a chance to make amends for everything he has done wrong in his life. But, as the soldier discovers to his horror, helping others isn't always that easy to do... Grave Union is a psychological thriller in which nothing is ever quite the way it seems.