The war ain't over

Newt (Matthew McConaughey) deserts his regiment in U.S. civil war to bury his nephew in a family graveyard. He likes his home just fine, but being a Confederate army deserter, he has to retreat even further in the swamp where he develops a taste for a slave girl and meets other people like him. And soon they grow in numbers and team up as a Robin Hood kind of jungle partisans, altho' U.S. army and government see it as a community of terrorists run by a traitor. The movie feels like a fast-forwarded history lesson, after the fighting's done, it's a political game with constitutional rights stepping in, therefore there's too much to deal in really.