During the summer of 1862, Minnesota residents on the western frontier who had cohabited peacefully with the Sioux Indians suddenly found themselves in the middle of a brutal and bloody uprising. Upward of one thousand white settlers were killed during the conflict while countless others were captured and tortured. Richard and Anna Fischer, German emigrants who along with their like minded brethren that settled New Ulm Minnesota experienced the terror first hand. This work of fiction, based based on the history of the events, looks at many of the characters involved and the motivations for their actions.