This documentary features interviews with historians, first-person accounts, rare historical photographs and archival materials that recapture the turbulent times of a nation divided. In total, more than 196,000 Hoosiers volunteered to fight during the course of the war. The film features the Iron Brigade at Gettysburg, Brigadier General Lew Wallace, the 28th United States Colored Troops, and Morgan's Raiders in Indiana.

This documentary traces the life and work of Ernie Pyle, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist from Indiana whose reporting from the foxholes gave voice to the ordinary soldiers of World War II. Includes interviews with historians, veterans, and others who knew and worked with Pyle, including Walter Cronkite, Andy Rooney, and Charles Osgood.