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. But it is not, nor was it intended to be, a full-fledged account of Anderson’s career. It contains much useful information and has been of assistance in the writing of this book. Hale’s They Called Him Bloody Bill: The Missouri Badman Who Taught Jesse James Outlawry, a slender paperbound volume published in 1975. 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. Much has been written about Bill Anderson. They understand immediately why Josey Wales, a Missouri farmer whose wife has been murdered by Kansas raiders, joins Anderson’s guerrilla gang. So says an actor at the outset of the film, The Outlaw Josey Wales. 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 legend-where he remains. Title.Ĭhapter One The Last Man You Will Ever SeeĬhapter Ten Good Morning, Captain AndersonĮpilogue The Spirit of Bill Anderson Yet Lives West (U.S.)-History-Civil War, 1861–1865-Underground movements. United States-History-Civil War, 1861–1865-Underground movements. Includes bibliographical references and index.ġ.
Library of Congres Cataloging-in-Publication Dataīloody Bill Anderson : the short, savage life of a Civil War guerrilla / Albert Castel and Thomas Goodrich.
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