Bloody Bill Anderson

Author : Albert Castel
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811715065
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bloody Bill Anderson written by Albert Castel and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Civil War Story of Bloody Bill Anderson written by Larry Wood and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 13 : 9781495808951
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bloody Bill Anderson written by Gayle a Lunning and published by Infinity Publishing (PA). This book was released on 2016-02-26 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Gayle Lunning
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781722093419
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bloody Bill Anderson written by Gayle Lunning and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Brian D. McKnight
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807137693
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Confederate Outlaw written by Brian D. McKnight and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2011-04-08 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Rick Miller
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1574413058
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bloody Bill Longley written by Rick Miller and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Richard S. Brownlee
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807111628
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gray Ghosts of the Confederacy written by Richard S. Brownlee and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1983-12-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gray Ghosts of the Confederacy is a history of the Confederate guerrillas who—under the ruthless command of such men as William C. Quantrill and “Bloody Bill” Anderson—plunged Missouri into a bloody, vicious conflict of an intensity unequaled in any other theater of the Civil War. Among their numbers were Frank and Jesse James and Cole and James Younger, who would later become infamous by extending the tactics they had learned during the war into civilian life.

Author : James W. Erwin
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614238995
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guerrilla Hunters in Civil War Missouri written by James W. Erwin and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : James Carlos Blake
Publisher : Harper Perennial
ISBN 13 : 9780380805938
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wildwood Boys written by James Carlos Blake and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 2001-07-31 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the raw clay of historical fact, James Carlos Blake has sculpted a powerful novel of both a man and an America at war with themselves. Here is the brutally honest story of free-spirit William Anderson, who is pulled into a savage conflict of state against state in the years leading up to the Civil War. When Bill suffers a catastrophic loss, a fury is unleashed in his anguished soul. He becomes the most fearsome guerrilla captain and earns a name that becomes whispered with reverence and terror: "Bloody Bill."

Author : T J Stiles
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1407074717
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jesse James written by T J Stiles and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At sixteen, Jesse James began his fighting career by killing Unionist neighbours on their doorsteps. In the bloodshed and bitterness that followed the South's surrender at Appomattox, Jesse and his fellow guerillas, with their gunfights and hold-ups, became part of the intensely brutal struggle by the White South against the racial egalitarianism and Federal power fostered by Reconstruction. In the first serious biography of Jesse James in forty years, T. J. Stiles paints a strikingly new and vivid portrait of the period before the American Civil War, during the conflict and its aftermath. With groundbreaking scholarship and dazzling reinterpretation, T. J. Stiles has refashioned one of the great legends of American history.