Giới thiệu
In the summer of 1863, the mud ramparts of Vicksburg are under constant, dramatic siege. While soldiers dive for cover, seventeen-year-old Toby Miller, the local postboy, walks calmly through the smoke. Clutching a leather satchel and wearing a bright orange postal sash, Toby cares nothing for the war—he only cares about his flawless, strike-free delivery record. Toby arrives at a half-destroyed mansion to deliver a package to Miss Gertrude, a stubborn aristocrat holding a silver flintlock. Gertrude refuses to sign for her mail until her imported Darjeeling tea arrives, revealing the release slip is locked in a military cache safe buried deep within Battery No. 3. Toby marches directly into the mud-slicked trenches of Battery No. 3, where the ferocious, soot-blinded Sergeant Girth is defending against a Union advance. Girth mistakes the bright orange-sashed Toby for a spy and swings a giant monkey wrench at him. Toby dodges with ridiculous acrobatic precision, using his massive leather rulebook to block mortar shrapnel. As the Union forces under the obsessive Major Vance charge the trenches, Toby treats the firefight as an unauthorized detour, using postal regulations to declare a temporary zone-wide ceasefire while he hunts for the safe. After Toby pops the safe using his postal master key, he exposes Major Vance's secret plot: Vance had intercepted the town's food and Gertrude's tea to force a swift surrender. Shocked by the theft, Sergeant Girth and Miss Gertrude team up with Toby. Under the threat of Gertrude's flintlock and Toby's relentless ledger-signing demands, Major Vance is utterly humiliated and retreats. Gertrude signs the ledger, and Toby happily blows his copper trumpet, leaving both armies completely speechless as he moves on to his next route.