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Bloody Bill Anderson - The Short, Savage Life of a Civil War Guerrilla (Paperback)
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Bloody Bill Anderson - The Short, Savage Life of a Civil War Guerrilla (Paperback)
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This book talks about the short, savage life of a civil war
guerrilla. Nowhere was the Civil War as savage as it was in
Missouri - and nowhere did it produce a killer more savage than
William Anderson. For a brief but dramatic period, ""Bloody Bill""
played the leading role in the most violent arena of the entire war
- and did so with a vicious abandon that spread fear throughout the
land. A name associated with William Quantrill and Jesse James,
Bloody Bill Anderson was known for never taking prisoners. A former
horse thief turned bushwhacker, he became the scourge of Kansas and
Missouri with a reputation for unspeakable atrocities. Sometimes he
left the bodies of dead Federal soldiers scalped, skinned, and
castrated. Sometimes he decapitated them and rearranged their
heads. Wherever Bloody Bill rode, the Grim Reaper rode alongside.
In telling this story of bitter bloodshed, historians Castel and
Goodrich track Bloody Bill's reign of terror over increasingly
violent raids. He rode with Quantrill in the infamous sack of
Lawrence and killed more victims than any other raider. Then he led
the brutal Centralia Massacre, a blood-soaked nightmare recounted
here hour-by-hour from firsthand accounts. More than compiling a
chronicle of horrors, Castel and Goodrich have produced the first
full-fledged account of Anderson's career. They examine his prewar
life, explain how he became a guerrilla, then describe the war that
he and his men waged against Union soldiers and defenseless
civilians alike. The authors' disagreements on many aspects of
Anderson's gruesome career add a fascinating dimension to the book.
Only 26 when he was killed charging an ambush, Bloody Bill Anderson
had already become a legend. This book takes readers behind the
legend and provides a closer look at the man - and at the face of
terror.
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