Presents an account of the gruesome career of Bloody Bill Anderson, one of a band of Civil War guerillas who cut a path of death and destruction through Kansas and Missouri in retaliation for perceived Union injustices.
A biography of William Quantrill, who was killed after fighting in Kansas-Missouri border battles during the Civil War. Examines why, twenty years later, his mother wanted to dig up his bones and sell them.
Two fifteen-year-old boys in Missouri in 1863 find friendship and family loyalty tested by Quantrell's raiders, a Rebel guerrilla band who roamed under the black flag of "no quarter to be given by Union troops.".
