During the Civil War, these Union volunteers made enemies in McCoy territory through repeated guerilla attacks. William “Devil Anse” Hatfield, a member of Confederate irregulars known as the ...

At the center of the of the conflict were the two family patriarchs: William Anderson "Devil Anse" Hatfield and Randolph McCoy. As legend has it, two neighboring families in the backwoods of ...

Teenager Calvin McCoy fired at the attackers through ... and great grandfather to the infamous Devil Anse Hatfield. Coordinates: 37 42.262 N 81 59.527 W In this family cemetery at Sarah Ann ...

McCoy's brother Asa Harmon McCoy, a Union sympathizer, was shot and killed either by Devil Anse Hatfield or by his uncle Jim Vance, both Confederates. "If somebody killed your brother," asked ...

Devil Anse Hatfield (Robert D. Hardaway, left) gives his son Johnse a talk about what it means to be a man in a scene from “Hatfield & McCoy.” | MIchael Brosilow Share “Beware the man who ...

“The famous Hatfield-McCoy feud that has terrorized the law-abiding citizens in Eastern Kentucky has broken out afresh and another wholesale slaughter is looked for at any moment.” The 1889 ...

It marked a turning point in their cross-border war waged in Kentucky and West Virginia, led by family patriarchs William Anderson (Devil Anse) Hatfield and Randolph (Ole Ran’l) McCoy.

"When the American Civil War began in 1861, family patriarchs William 'Devil Anse' Hatfield of West Virginia and Randolph ...

The McCoy brothers cut Hatfield with knives ... But on the way to the jail in Pikeville, Hatfield’s brother, William “Devil Anse” Hatfield, and a group of men caught up with them and took ...

Descendants of both the Hatfield and McCoy families gathered at Sarah ... laying of a wreath at the grave of William Anderson “Devil Anse” Hatfield. The event was hosted by William Keith ...