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Re: The Movie "Josey Wales"
« Reply #40 on: May 23, 2015, 12:34:36 PM »
One of the best westerns and a great movie all around.   While none of the actors, other than Bottoms are really the right age.   Fletcher was a real person, he rode with Bloody Bill and young Jesse James.  He did end up in Texas after the war, minus an arm.   I believe he opened a mill.   Bloody Bill was only about 24 when he was beheaded by the Yankees in Richmond Missouri (about 6 days after he killed my wife's G.G. grandfather).    I am in that area of the country, and one has to learn to sing Dixie or the Battle Hymn of the Republic with equal enthusiasm!

IIRC the biography I read on Wild Bill Hickok reported that the ACW continued to be fought on an unofficial basis in the Missouri area for sometime after Appomatox. I seem to remember reading something about returning Union and Confederate Vets trying to "settle scores" for quite a while afterwards. Heard anything about that?

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Re: The Movie "Josey Wales"
« Reply #41 on: May 23, 2015, 01:55:41 PM »
IIRC the biography I read on Wild Bill Hickok reported that the ACW continued to be fought on an unofficial basis in the Missouri area for sometime after Appomatox. I seem to remember reading something about returning Union and Confederate Vets trying to "settle scores" for quite a while afterwards. Heard anything about that? Best Wishes,
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Re: The Movie "Josey Wales"
« Reply #42 on: May 24, 2015, 09:46:50 PM »
Well, I believe Jesse James was shot while riding in to surrender.  As such, he was probably not present at the liberty bank robbery.   I believe a lot of that went on here.

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Re: The Movie "Josey Wales"
« Reply #43 on: May 25, 2015, 07:41:05 AM »
My 2nd great grandfather was conscripted into the Confederate Army in Missouri. He was told to join or be shot. He was captured and sent to the Union prison in Alton, Il. By the time his wife secured his release he had died.

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Re: The Movie "Josey Wales"
« Reply #44 on: May 26, 2015, 06:46:55 AM »
Alton was a rough area during the war.  There was a riot or two there as I recall and as Andersonville and Camp Douglas showed, neither side knew what to do with a prisoner of war. 

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Re: The Movie "Josey Wales"
« Reply #45 on: May 26, 2015, 02:32:33 PM »
I sorta got the impression that after the Prisoner Exchange Policy was done away with
POW camps like Douglas and Andersonville simply became "execution by another means". Just sayin...

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Re: The Movie "Josey Wales"
« Reply #46 on: May 26, 2015, 05:48:08 PM »
One of the best westerns and a great movie all around.   While none of the actors, other than Bottoms are really the right age.   Fletcher was a real person, he rode with Bloody Bill and young Jesse James.  He did end up in Texas after the war, minus an arm.   I believe he opened a mill.   Bloody Bill was only about 24 when he was beheaded by the Yankees in Richmond Missouri (about 6 days after he killed my wife's G.G. grandfather).    I am in that area of the country, and one has to learn to sing Dixie or the Battle Hymn of the Republic with equal enthusiasm!
I hear...not to say that I know that you can get away with Dixie or the Battle Hymn, but down South, do NOT whistle, play or sing, "Marching Through Georgia"! That can get you into all sorts of trouble!  ::)
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Re: The Movie "Josey Wales"
« Reply #47 on: May 26, 2015, 06:09:42 PM »
Gosh.
I wonder why that would be?
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Re: The Movie "Josey Wales"
« Reply #48 on: May 28, 2015, 04:12:55 PM »
...probably for the same reason you won't find "Sherman Avenue" in Atlanta. ::)

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