Blood on the Plains — Robert Vaughan

THE MEN SWARMED OUT OF THE NIGHT, BRANDISHING SWORDS OF BLOODY RIGHTEOUSNESS.
WHEN THEY WERE DONE, INNOCENT LIVES WERE SHED, AND A NATION WAS ONE STEP CLOSER TO WAR...

Blood on the Plains

Between one man's mad dream and another's outlaw raiders, a nation was exploding. And two West Point cadets, sent by the President himself on a secret mission to the burning Kansas-Missouri borde, would be swept into the maelstorm -- friends turned enemies across a thundering landscape of savagery, courage and war.