- [opening narration]
- Narrator: The time is 1863. The place: the state of Virginia. The event is a mass blood-letting known as the Civil War, a tragic moment in time when a nation was split into two fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation.
- Narrator: [continuing narration subsequent to extensive character dialogue] This is Joseph Paradine, Confederate cavalry, as he heads down toward a small town in the middle of a valley. But very shortly, Joseph Paradine will make contact with the enemy. He will also make contact with an outpost not found on a military map - an outpost called - The Twilight Zone.
- Paradine: Mr. Dauger, I extend my sympathy so long as your yellow eats at your inside. But when it crawls onto my bivouac and tries to climb up on my horse, I withdraw my sympathy and give you the back of my hand.
- [closing narration]
- Narrator: On the following morning, Sergeant Paradine and the rest of these men were moved up north to a little town in Pennsylvania, an obscure little place where a battle was brewing, a town called Gettysburg - and this one was fought without the help of the Devil. Small historical note not to be found in any known books, but part of the records - in The Twilight Zone.