For Southwest Missouri, the Civil War was an unparalleled period of violence, sorrow and anger. As the torches burned the physical landscape, the depredations inflicted were also scorched upon the psyche of the people who lived through fires. Survey Carthage's battlefield for stubborn hold-outs or hold vigil for innocent bystanders at the Kendrick House who were swept up into the stratagems of bushwackers and guerillas. Meet the "Bloody Spikes, " "Rotten Johnny Reb" and scores more figures from the region's past who continue to trouble its present.