But McCoy family member Asa Harmon McCoy had decided ... 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 ...

In 1878, Randall accused a relative of Anderson “Devil Anse” Hatfield of stealing one of ... A vicious, decades-long family feud ensued.