Posted on 09/10/2024 11:53:27 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
160 years ago this month, William Anderson Jr. (Cap) was born to the infamous clan leader William Anderson (Devil Anse) Hatfield in Logan county West Virginia. The second son to Devil Anse and Levisa Hatfield, he was clearly one of, if not THEE most ruthless of the family in his early years. He eventually became a man of god and changed his ways as he became older as many do. But the wake of damage left was real. We revisit the homesite and grave of him and his close family. The only video of its kind in existence to date.
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The John Wayne movie “McClintock” was based on the Logan County wars.
The Hatfield-McCoy Trail is pretty cool. It goes through Branwell WV, town with the highest per-capita # of millionaires at the beginning of the 20th century. Most of them would die by their own hand.
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I once happened upon a youtube documentary a few years back about the feud, was curious and watched it. So interesting. I’m in no way from any of this part of the country, I’m from Long Island but this story is pretty much part of
America.
Thank you for putting this on here. Just so interesting to see.
I found it particularly interesting Cap Hatfield had been in the civil war and that is where his nickname came from.
His father had been in the civil war, a captain. The narrator doesn’t specify on which side he fought in the video.
I remember they had a Hatfield and McCoy reality TV show a few years back...following the two families now.
If memory serves, both families now were just a bunch of, dumb, under achieving, lazy grifters, trying to make a buck through various doomed to fail schemes and what not.
The whole feud was long forgotten.
The History Channel had a mini-series in the feud a few years ago that was excellent. It had an all-star cast with Kevin Costner, Bill Paxton, Tom Berlinger and Powers Booth, to name a few. It was very good and pretty historically accurate.accurate.
I believe the Hatfields fought for the South, and the McCoys fought for the North.
That is probably the one I saw. It is on Amazon Prime right now to own the first part of the series it is reduced to 4.99 but there are three parts and the other parts are 9.99 each. Called Hatfields & McCoys.
That was one of the best Star Trek episodes of the original show.
That would explain a lot.
Cap Hatfield and both sides of the feud were almost entirely Confederate in their allegiance during the Civil War. Afterwards though, the Hatfields were more prosperous and influential based on timbering and were Republicans, while the McCoys were lower middle class Democrats reliant on small scale and subsistence farming and retained Confederate sympathies.
Somebody in the two families fought for the Union, and was attacked and killed for it after he came home. Can’t say that I know enough about the details.
The killing of Union veteran Asa McCoy was part of it and the first instance of violence, but a lawsuit over ownership of a hog was the more proximate aggravation. A Hatfield won the case in front of a Justice of the Peace who was a Hatfield, who rejected a claim of ownership by by a McCoy that the hog bore typical McCoy earmarks. That resulted in hard feelings that led to another killing and the feud was on.
McClintock was based on Shakespeare’s “Taming of the Shrew”.
“Chisum” was very loosely based on the Lincoln County War.
Jim Vance grave.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uq7eR4Z_98Y&pp=ygUhaGF0ZmllbGQgbWNjb3kgdHJhaWxzIHZhbmNlIGdyYXZl
Holy crap! JD Vance is a McCoy?!
Yes. isn’t that interesting?
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