As the Civil War rages through the South‚ two men take fate into their own hands as fortune hunters‚ venturing into Mexico where the sacred Bells of El Diablo‚ forged of pure gold‚ are said to be buried. The son of a wealthy plantation owner‚ Confederate Lieutenant James Dunn is young‚ brash‚ and a fierce fighter. Crosseye Reeves is a former sharecropper on the Dunn plantation. After a bellyful of the horrors of war‚ the men go AWOL and head for Mexico.