Albert E. Castel - Bloody Bill Anderson: The Short, Savage Life of a Civil War Guerrilla
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The first-ever biography of the perpetrator of the Centralia and Baxter Springs Massacres, as well as innumerable atrocities during the Civil War in the West.
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Published by STACKPOLE BOOKS 5067 Ritter Road Mechanicsburg, PA 17055
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Library of Congres Cataloging-in-Publication Data Castel, Albert E. and Thomas Goodrich Bloody Bill Anderson : the short, savage life of a Civil War guerrilla / Albert Castel and Thomas Goodrich. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8117-1506-X 1. Anderson, William T. 2. United StatesHistoryCivil War, 18611865Underground movements. 3. West (U.S.)HistoryCivil War, 18611865Underground movements. 4. Quantrill, William Clarke, 18371865. 5. GuerrillasMissouriBiography. 6. SoldiersMissouriBiography. I. Title. E470.45.A53C37 1998 973.7'37'092dc21 [b] 98-34144 CIP
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Contents
Preface
vii
Acknowledgments
ix
Prologue This is the Way We Do Business
1
Chapter One The Last Man You Will Ever See
7
Chapter Two I'm Here for Revenge
19
Chapter Three Such a Damn Outfit
31
Chapter Four Let the Blood Flow
41
Chapter Five There are Guerrillas There
63
Chapter Six You All are to Be Killed
79
Chapter Seven The Lord Have Mercy
87
Chapter Eight Reserved
99
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Chapter Nine How Do You like That?
111
Chapter Ten Good Morning, Captain Anderson
123
Epilogue The Spirit of Bill Anderson Yet Lives
131
Notes
145
Bibliographical Essay
159
Index
165
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Preface
Why a book about William "Bloody Bill" Anderson? Let us answer that question with another question: Why not a book about him? His career was, to say the least, an eventful one, and for a brief but spectacular period he played the leading role in the most viciously violent arena of the entire Civil War, with the result that even before he died he had passed from life into legendwhere he remains.
"My name is Anderson. They call me Bloody Bill."
So says an actor at the outset of the film, The Outlaw Josey Wales. Viewers know what these words signify. They understand immediately why Josey Wales, a Missouri farmer whose wife has been murdered by Kansas raiders, joins Anderson's guerrilla gang. He wants revenge. With Bloody Bill he will get it.
Much has been written about Bill Anderson. With one exception, though, all of these writings have taken the form of either short articles or somewhat longer accounts of Anderson and his doings in biographies of William Clarke Quantrill and general histories of the guerrilla conflict in Missouri during the Civil War. The exception is Donald R. Hale's They Called Him Bloody Bill: The Missouri Badman Who Taught Jesse James Outlawry, a slender paperbound volume published in 1975. It contains much useful information and has been of assistance in the writing of this book. But it is not, nor was it intended to be, a full-fledged account of Anderson's career. Instead it devotes 70 of its 118 pages, many of which consist of illustrations, to Anderson's activities during the summer and fall of 1864 and only 12 to what he did prior to then, with the remaining 30 pages dealing mainly with what happened to Anderson's grave and to the postwar escapades of some of his followers. Thus this book represents the first attempt to present a complete account, insofar as available sources allow, of Bloody Bill's prewar life, of how he became a guerrilla, and of the war that he and his men wageda war that for some of them never ended until they died.
In making this attempt, we encountered two major problems, both common to all serious historical endeavors but especially difficult given the nature of our subject. One was obtaining an adequate supply of authentic and reliable
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