Jesse Wilder is a man haunted by too much killing. It started with the slaughter at Shiloh and continued as the young Tennessean fought for his homeland through the horrors of the War Between the States. After the war, there was Mexico, where Jesse armed and trained peasant soldiers to fight for freedom against arrogant French forces. But what's waiting for him on the treacherous Butterfield Trail in the wild New Mexico Territory might be the worst yet. The settlers' wagons are being attacked. The army assumes it's the bloody work of Apache raiding parties. But battle-sharpened instincts warn Jesse that it's something just as deadly...but far more sinister. Now Jesse has to lend all his skill and courage to the army he once fought as they track down a band of cold-blooded killers on the... "Trail of Rogues."