The Devil of the Border: Champ Ferguson's Reign of Terror

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.