A corporal in the 87th Pennsylvania expires from wounds during
the Second Battle of Winchester while a Major General for the
Union in the American Civil War is marching towards the little
town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Neither of the men have met
before, but what they share in life makes a better tragedy than
any writing of Shakespeare’s because their true stories are
written in the annals of history. The Brothers’ War Long before
the American Civil War began, two young boys– Johnston Hastings
Skelly and Wesley Culp– grew up together in the rolling hills of
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. “Jack”, as Johnston was known
throughout the town, and Wesley were boyhood friends. As the
years passed, the boys turned into men and the men took up
careers. Wesley Culp worked as a carriage-maker and when his
employer decided to move to Virginia, Culp followed leaving his
friends and family back home in Gettysburg. Being new to
Virginia, Culp joined the Hamtramck Guards, the local militia.
In those days, local militia was mor