![]() ![]() Bushwhackers were bands of soldiers that did not belong to an organized military force. He joined forces with fellow bushwhacker William Clarke Quantrill and tortured and terrorized people in Kansas, Missouri, and Texas. This event further fueled Anderson’s hostility towards all Union soldiers.Īnderson then conducted one brutal raid after another. ![]() One sister died and the other was crippled when the Kansas City building they were imprisoned in collapsed. Then two of his sisters were imprisoned by order of Union commander General Thomas Ewing because they were suspected of being guerrilla supporters. ![]() After Anderson’s father was killed in a confrontation over a horse in 1862, Anderson sought revenge and killed a local judge and his brother-in-law. His father, a hatter with Southern sympathies, moved his family to Kansas where they were met with hostility because they refused to fight against the South. While Anderson claimed Missouri as his native state, it is more likely that he was born in Kentucky around 1838. Even the state of his birth is uncertain. Little is known about Anderson’s early life. He is considered one of the vilest figures on either side of the war. Anderson’s nickname was “Bloody Bill” because he murdered and butchered Union soldiers and sympathizers during the Civil War. ![]() “Bloody Bill” Anderson was a notorious Confederate guerrilla leader with whom Jesse James associated for a brief period during the Civil War. ![]()
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