Lettie is surrounded by enemies. She has just buried her brothers from
opposite sides in the Battle of Lexington, Missouri, in September 1861. The
Union sergeant believes all Missourians are enemies and especially Lettie,
since Wolfe, her fiance, rides with a bushwhacker gang working for the
Confederacy. Her neighbors with southern sympathies hate her because she
freed her slaves and shares with them her hemp and tobacco harvests. As if
all that isnt trouble enough, the head of the bushwhacker gang plans to
kidnap her workers and sell them back into slavery. Lettie, Wolfe, and the
freed...