U.S. General Hudson Kilpatrick is known to many as "Kill Cavalry," not for the number of enemy troops he has killed, but his own, due to brash decisions that lead to heavy Federal casualties.

"The Burning of Atlanta" is the story of the destruction of a major city near the end of the war, and the desperation and terror this causes in the lives of those who watch their entire society collapse around them.

When their brother is killed by an outlaw, three Dalton brothers join their sheriff's dept. When they're cheated by the law, they turn to crime. Trying to outdo Jesse James, they try to rob two banks at once in 1892. Things get ugly.