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Author: Albert Castel Publisher: Stackpole Books ISBN: 9780811715065 Category : Guerrillas Languages : en Pages : 188
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A story of bitter bloodshed, one in which farmers and honest laborers are transformed into thieves and murderers. The authors track the rise and reign of Bill Anderson' terror from 1862 to 1865.
Author: Albert Castel Publisher: Stackpole Books ISBN: 9780811715065 Category : Guerrillas Languages : en Pages : 188
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A story of bitter bloodshed, one in which farmers and honest laborers are transformed into thieves and murderers. The authors track the rise and reign of Bill Anderson' terror from 1862 to 1865.
Author: Larry Wood Publisher: ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 188
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When the Civil War broke out, Missouri was secured for the Union, but many Southern-leaning citizens in the border state resented the Federal occupation. Fighting along the border flared up again as hundreds of boys and young men took to the bush to champion the Rebel cause. Waging a particularly vicious brand of guerilla warfare, they stayed to fight long after regular Confederate forces had been driven from the state. Although William "Bloody Bill" Anderson always warrants special mention in books about Confederate Civil War guerrilla William Quantrill, Anderson's story has scarcely been told in its own right. In "The Civil War Story of Bloody Bill Anderson," Larry Wood aims to neither condemn nor to justify, but merely to tell a story that is fascinating-the story of perhaps the bloodiest man in America's bloodiest war.
Author: Gayle a Lunning Publisher: Infinity Publishing (PA) ISBN: 9781495808951 Category : Centralia (Mo.) Languages : en Pages : 486
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Th e western arena of the Civil War seemed distant and fought for reasons other than slavery. Jayhawker and Border Ruffi ans clashed mercilessly before and after the fi ring on Fort Sumter. One confl ict after another caused tensions to escalate as each side of the Missouri/Kansas state line attempted to establish its superiority. Each injustice led to a retaliation of even more unjust actions. Certainly the Lawrence Massacre could be interpreted as a reprisal for the collapse of the Bingham Building. However, the Centralia Massacre can only be attributed to the diabolical cravings of the maniac 'Bloody Bill Anderson'.
Author: James W. Erwin Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 1614238995 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 158
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The guerrillas who terrorized Missouri during the Civil War were colorful men whose daring and vicious deeds brought them a celebrity never enjoyed by the Federal soldiers who hunted them. Many books have been written about William Quantrill, "Bloody Bill" Anderson, George Todd, Tom Livingston and other noted guerrillas. You have probably not heard of George Wolz, Aaron Caton, John Durnell, Thomas Holston or Ludwick St. John. They served in Union cavalry regiments in Missouri, where neither side showed mercy to defeated foes. They are just five of the anonymous thousands who, in the end, defeated the guerrillas and have been forgotten with the passage of time. This is their story.
Author: Paul Williams Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 1476675732 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 222
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From the hills and valleys of the eastern Confederate states to the sun-drenched plains of Missouri and "Bleeding Kansas," a vicious, clandestine war was fought behind the big-battle clashes of the American Civil War. In the east, John Singleton Mosby became renowned for the daring hit-and-run tactics of his rebel horsemen. Here a relatively civilized war was fought; women and children usually left with a roof over their heads. But along the Kansas-Missouri border it was a far more brutal clash; no quarter given. William Clarke Quantrill and William "Bloody Bill" Anderson became notorious for their savagery.
Author: T.J. Stiles Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 030777337X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 890
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In this brilliant biography T. J. Stiles offers a new understanding of the legendary outlaw Jesse James. Although he has often been portrayed as a Robin Hood of the old west, in this ground-breaking work Stiles places James within the context of the bloody conflicts of the Civil War to reveal a much more complicated and significant figure. "Carries the reader scrupulously through James’s violent, violent life.... When [Stiles]… calls Jesse James the ‘last rebel of the Civil War; he correctly defines the theme that ruled Jesse’s life." —Larry McMurtry, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lonesome Dove via The New Republic Raised in a fiercely pro-slavery household in bitterly divided Missouri, at age sixteen James became a bushwhacker, one of the savage Confederate guerrillas that terrorized the border states. After the end of the war, James continued his campaign of robbery and murder into the brutal era of reconstruction, when his reckless daring, his partisan pronouncements, and his alliance with the sympathetic editor John Newman Edwards placed him squarely at the forefront of the former Confederates’ bid to recapture political power. With meticulous research and vivid accounts of the dramatic adventures of the famous gunman, T. J. Stiles shows how he resembles not the apolitical hero of legend, but rather a figure ready to use violence to command attention for a political cause—in many ways, a forerunner of the modern terrorist.
Author: Gayle Lunning Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781722093419 Category : Languages : en Pages : 428
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Bloody Bill Anderson is a historical fiction novel of a real person that did unreal acts. Name bad men in history, Caligula - Hitler - Charles Manson, more? You may have your own list of heartless maniacal killers. Add to your list and mine, Bloody Bill Anderson for he was a ruthless, vicious killer. He certainly qualifies as a 'bad man' but I have met many who still consider him a hero. The people with this point of view are descendants of the thousands of people in western Missouri to be driven from long established homes by the infamous General Order Number 11. To these people, the atrocities committed by the Union, Jayhawkers and Redlegs against southern sympathizer;s justified Bloody Bill Anderson's heinous acts in retribution. Bad man or hero, you decide.
Author: Rick Miller Publisher: University of North Texas Press ISBN: 1574413058 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 391
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William Preston Longley (1851-1878) went on a murderous rampage over the last few years of his life. Once he was arrested in 1877, and subsequently sentenced to hang, his name became known statewide as an outlaw and a murderer. Longley created and reveled in his self-centered image as a fearsome, deadly gunfighter. In truth, Longley was not the daring figure that he attempted to paint.
Author: Brian D. McKnight Publisher: LSU Press ISBN: 0807137693 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 429
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In the fall of 1865, the United States Army executed Confederate guerrilla Champ Ferguson for his role in murdering fifty-three loyal citizens of Kentucky and Tennessee during the Civil War. Long remembered as the most unforgiving and inglorious warrior of the Confederacy, Ferguson has often been dismissed by historians as a cold-blooded killer. In Confederate Outlaw: Champ Ferguson and the Civil War in Appalachia, biographer Brian D. McKnight demonstrates how such a simple judgment ignores the complexity of this legendary character. In his analysis, McKnight maintains that Ferguson fought the war on personal terms and with an Old Testament mentality regarding the righteousness of his cause. He believed that friends were friends and enemies were enemies—no middle ground existed. As a result, he killed prewar comrades as well as longtime adversaries without regret, all the while knowing that he might one day face his own brother, who served as a Union scout. Ferguson’s continued popularity demonstrates that his bloody legend did not die on the gallows. Widespread rumors endured of his last-minute escape from justice, and over time, the borderland terrorist emerged as a folk hero for many southerners. Numerous authors resurrected and romanticized his story for popular audiences, and even Hollywood used Ferguson’s life to create the composite role played by Clint Eastwood in The Outlaw Josey Wales. McKnight’s study deftly separates the myths from reality and weaves a thoughtful, captivating, and accurate portrait of the Confederacy’s most celebrated guerrilla. An impeccably researched biography, Confederate Outlaw offers an abundance of insight into Ferguson’s wartime motivations, actions, and tactics, and also describes borderland loyalties, guerrilla operations, and military retribution. McKnight concludes that Ferguson, and other irregular warriors operating during the Civil War, saw the conflict as far more of a personal battle than a political one.
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