Throughout the generations of this country, the ground has been stained with blood. This blood has been spilt because of the hungriness of men for power. Even before the foot of a European explore touched this soil, blood of men has flowed from wars over power. With these new settlers came new ideals and beliefs that brought more conflict. More and more settlers came and eventually war fallowed. 80 years later came one of the bloodiest civil wars ever fought on this continent. The American Civil War spread across nineteen states. An estimated 620,000 people lost their lives during the war, the most in American history.

One hundred and fifty years later, an equally personal form of warfare is on the streets of most major US cities. “Some 33,000 violent street gangs, motorcycle gangs, and prison gangs with about 1.4 million members are criminally active in the U.S. today,” reports the FBI. This is actively true in the Washington D.C. area and in other places that once were battlegrounds in the American Civil War.

Blood Stains examines lost and stolen innocence, forms of warfare crossing family lines, and draw parallels between the conflict which assured America's unity, and today’s more current street conflicts which threaten it.