The American Army officers that served together in the Mexican War must now take sides in the growing issue of secession. Beginning immediately after "Home of the Brave", "Antebellum" follows the lives of the Van Buskirk family as they interweave with those of Abraham Lincoln, Winfield Scott, Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, William Tecumseh Sherman and John Buford. This is a continuation of the Gone For Soldiers series and the first book in a Civil War trilogy called Johnny Comes Marching Home.