A young Jesse James and his allies join a band of rebels fighting a guerrilla campaign for the Confederates during the American Civil War. The experience gives the future outlaw his first taste of crime, but he grows increasingly disillusioned at the atrocities committed by the leader of the raiders. Western, starring Audie Murphy, Brian Donlevy and Tony Curtis.

Outraged by Redleg atrocities, the James and Younger Brothers along with Kit Dalton join Quantrill's Raiders and find themselves participating in even worse war crimes.