William Quantrill's gang of Bushwhackers had grown…
August 1863 CE
William Quantrill's gang of Bushwhackers had grown to over three hundred by early 1863.
William T. Anderson, Jr., who will later be immortalized as “Bloody Bill” Anderson, had joined Quantrill's Raiders by the spring of 1863, if not sooner.
William T. Anderson, Sr., a Southern sympathizer, had been shot to death in March 1862 by a prominent Unionist, some say for horse-stealing, others say for simply having pro-slavery views.
Most accounts claim a neighbor did it and that Anderson’s twenty-two-year old son and his brother Jim later confronted the neighbor, killing him and another man.
Anderson, now in trouble with the law, had had to leave Kansas.
Whatever the reason, the event had turned Anderson into a hater of the Union cause.
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