Description
This is the story of a renegade adventurer, Alvarez Kelly, who gets caught in the middle of the Civil War. With no loyalties to either North or South, Kelly is hired to drive a herd of cattle from Mexico to the Union Army in Virginia.
However, along the way he is captured by Confederate Colonel Tom Rossiter who persuades him...by shooting off a finger, to delivert he cattle to starving Confederates in Richmond.
At a bridge leading to Richmond, the Union Army attacks and a bloody battle ensues in which Kelly has to decide if the time has come to take a stand.