"Bleeding Kansas" & the American Civil War

Council Grove, Kansas

Untitled William Anderson, a Southern sympathizer, is shot to death in March 1862 by a prominent Unionist, some say for horse-stealing, others say for simply having pro-slavery views. Wnatever the reason, it turns the slain man's 22-year old son, also named William (and later immortalized as "Bloody Bill" Anderson) into a hater of the Union cause and spurs him to join Quantrill's Raiders.

by Jeff Moran