Lettie is surrounded by enemies. She has just buried her brothers fromopposite sides in the Battle of Lexington, Missouri, in September 1861. TheUnion sergeant believes all Missourians are enemies and especially Lettie,since Wolfe, her fiance', rides with a bushwhacker gang working for theConfederacy. Her neighbors with southern sympathies hate her because shefreed her slaves and shares with them her hemp and tobacco harvests. As ifall that isn't trouble enough, the head of the bushwhacker gang plans tokidnap her workers and sell them back into slavery. Lettie, Wolfe, and thefreed slaves strive to save the family farm and survive the many enemies.