Hello and welcome to Civil War Stories. I'm your host, Steve Matthews. Today we're going to explore one of the darkest and most disturbing chapters of the American Civil War - the story of a man whose name became synonymous with brutality, vengeance, and the complete breakdown of civilized warfare. So settle in as we journey to the blood-soaked borderlands between Tennessee and Kentucky, where a guerrilla leader named Champ Ferguson turned the Civil War into a personal vendetta that would ultimately cost him his life and earn him a place in history as one of the war's most notorious war criminals.