The Civil War split the United States and now it has split the Fitzgerald Family.
Although George Fitzgerald has returned from the war, his sister Elizabeth Fitzgerald has chosen to remain in Washington to volunteer as a nurse.
The ex-Confederate spy, David Windover, has given up on his dream of being with Alice Fitzgerald and is trying to move on with his life in Cumberland, Md.
Alice and her sons continue to haul coal along the 184.
5-mile-long C&O Canal.
It is dangerous work, though,.
