Few men of the nineteenth century achieved so much in so little time as did Zachary Joe Daniels. From his storied career serving in the Union Army in the War Between the States to his famed work as an inventor and wealthy landowner and cattle broker, Daniels' story is also the story of a family--an Indiana family 'Lieutenant Zachary' spans the battlefields of the Civil War and the untamed West to the back country of Parke County, Indiana telling not only his story but that of his family and life in that community.