The psychopath John Brown, Senator Lane & his red legs begat the Partisan rangers, and Bloody Bill had a bit of reason for being a bit off in the head after the unionists murdered his father & sister.
Face it, Missouri was our own Balkans war, for 10 years before, and 20 years after the civil war, neighbors were murdering neighbors with unrelenting hatred.
Some talk of the Hatfield's and the McCoys as being a war of the feud. Compared to Missouri, the Hatfield's and McCoys played make believe children's games.
Pure Hollywood, but check out this movie, it will give the drift of those hatreds.
http://www.contactmusic.com/new/film.nsf/reviews/ridewdevilThe psychopath John Brown, Senator Lane & his red legs begat the Partisan rangers, and Bloody Bill had a bit of reason for being a bit off in the head after the unionists murdered his father & sister. The power of the southron myth machine. Anderson's father was killed by a man named Arthur Baker in self defense. Baker had turned Bill and Jim in for stealing horses and Anderson senior went after him with a shotgun. Baker was the better shot. Bloody Bill later trapped Baker in his store and burned him alive. Nice guy, all in all. The death of Anderson's sister was accidental.
Face it, Missouri was our own Balkans war, for 10 years before, and 20 years after the civil war, neighbors were murdering neighbors with unrelenting hatred.
But it seems that you would have us believe that all the hatred was on the Union side.