Set during the Battle of Chancellorsville of the American Civil War, a Union platoon leader and his men find themselves lost in a dense area of forest known as The Wilderness. They are separated from the rest of their company and find themselves in a small meadow. One of the soldiers finds a strange stone, and inadvertently awakens malevolent spirits, who threaten the survival of the platoon.
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