What would you do if you found an old Civil War diary?

Three college students do just that. The old diary was written by a Confederate soldier while a prisoner of war. He secretly recorded the plight of prisoners, their mistreatment, bad food and water, disease, general miseries, and the occasional fleeting moments of happiness in an otherwise hopeless place. When he fears he will not reach freedom alive, he enters a secret in his journal.

More than a hundred a fifty years later, three Nashville college students discover the diary’s secret. Their find sends them to the Western North Carolina mountains in search of a stash of stolen Civil War gold. When one of the students disappears, the others call for help. Mark Rollins arrives and is joined in the search for the student by two tough looking men dispatched to the area by the missing boy’s uncle, a former Czech mobster turned Miami real estate tycoon. Things get dicey when they discover the students are not the only ones after the gold.