In the rugged Upper Cumberland of Tennessee, some of the war's most vicious guerrilla fighting took place because residents were about evenly divided between the Union and the Confederacy. Near Carthage, part of Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg's army passed during its 1862 Kentucky invasion, while a large Union garrison occupied the Battery Hill fort overlooking the town, the Cumberland River, and the roads. In Cookeville, a major crossroads for both armies, Federal troops burned the county courthouse in 1865 just before the war ended. At Sparta in 1864, a Federal commander frustrated by guerrilla Champ Ferguson and other partisans ordered his troops to plunder local homes. Sparta native Confederate Gen. George Dibrell served with Gen. Nathan B. Forrest's cavalry. In Monterey, Union Gen. John T. Wilder's postwar home stands near the Officer Farm, where an 1864 firefight ended with five Confederates dead and a sixth executed. South of Monterey, France Cemetery is the burial place of Ferguson after his October 1865 trial and execution for murder.