Alfred Shope was just a boy from Skeenah Creek, in rural Western North Carolina, when the American Civil War began. With duty, he became an intuitive soldier seeing a lifetime of adventure and narrow escapes most could only imagine. Through his personal journey lives were saved and eventually love was found in the arms of Nancy Griffin. Witness the life and times of a man who lived life to the fullest, so that when he came to die others would hear how he truly lived.