The tale of what happened on a December night nearly 150 years ago resonated with Donald Lovette. A Liberty County native and resident — and a long-serving member of its board of commissioners — Lovette had heard of what happened to several hundred freed slaves at the Ebenezer Creek after Union forces cut the pontoon bridge across the swollen tributary until the last few years. But the fate of those slaves, pinned between surging creek and a charging Confederate cavalry troop fast on their heels, led Lovette to pen a play about what transpired that night.