• The Confederate spy/scout spots 20,000 Union men coming at a very fast pace and reports that to James Longstreet. .
• Longstreet does not believe the spy at first but decides not to take any chances and reports that to General Robert Lee. .
• Lee is also surprised by this news because he had not received any news from J.E.B. Stuart about these Union men.
• However, he cannot afford to not believe the scout and decides to go to Gettysburg.
Chapter 2:.
• Colonel Chamberlain of the Union Army is told that he is going to receive 120 mutineers who are from Maine, just like him.
• The mutineers still had one year left on their contract and everyone else in their regiment died, so they did not want to fight any more; but no one told them to go and then they thought of Chamberlain's regiment.
• George Meade, General of the Union Army, sent a message to Chamberlain saying that he had the power to shoot those men if they did not obey him.
• The problem was that Chamberlain did not have enough supplies for his men and these new 120 men.
• But he could not shoot the men because they were from Maine as well and he would not be able to show his face there after the war, if he shot them.
• Once they arrive, he tells them to go eat some food and one man Joseph Bucklin comes to him and explains their situation, saying that he and everyone is tired of the war and want to go back home.
• Chamberlain receives orders from Colonel Vincent saying that he is first in line and should move out and Chamberlain tells his brother to gather up the whole regiment.
• Chamberlain goes to the mutineers and tells them that he has been ordered to take them with him .
• Chamberlain gives them a choice: to come with him and fight or come along anyway, but under guard.
• He tells them that he would see that they received fair treatment after the battle/war.