Tumbleweed
Sergeant
- Joined
- Mar 14, 2013
- Location
- Southern WI
Late in the evening William T. (Bloody Bill) Anderson forced his way into the mansion of prominent tobacco grower and Union loyalist, Benjamin Lewis. According to some reports, Lewis had put a $6000 dead or alive reward on Anderson's head and the guerrilla decided to collect it personally. Anderson and his accomplice so savagely beat and tortured the fifty-two year old that he never fully recovered from the ordeal and died sixteen months later.
This account of the abuse was printed in the New York Times a few weeks later.
This account of the abuse was printed in the New York Times a few weeks later.