In 1897, an aspiring politician is mysteriously murdered in the rural area of Alabama known as Mitcham Beat.
Caught in the maelstrom of the Mitcham war are four people: the aging sheriff sympathetic to b.
The hooded members wage a bloody year-long campaign of terror that culminates in a massacre where the innocent suffer alongside the guilty.
His outraged friends -- --mostly poor cotton farmers -- form a secret society, Hell-at-the-Breech, to punish the townspeople they believe responsible.
In 1897, an aspiring politician is mysteriously murdered in the rural area of Alabama known as Mitcham Beat