Bloody Bill Anderson: The Short, Savage Life of a Civil War Guerilla

[Civil War Tales] [But The Wrong Side] [Bushwhackin’]

Bloody Bill Anderson: The Short, Savage Life of a Civil War Guerilla

Albert Castle & Thomas Goodrich

Stackpole Books, Pennsylvania, 1998. First Edition.

Pretty much perfect; an excellent copy.

Bloody Bill Anderson was a Confederate bushwhacker, or, psycho for hire, whose attacks on the Union were things of whispered horror. This is a fascinating history of the more depraved side of the Civil War, in which former farmers and laborers, at the offer of a few confederate dollars, became terrorists for the lost cause. Written with cinematic verve and well researched, this is a dark one, but deeply fascinating. To this day some say that you can hear the battle cry of Bloody Bill ring out over the shaded woods of deep Kansas…