08-03-2020, 09:51 AM
(08-02-2020, 05:40 PM)BengalHawk62 Wrote: You mean like the Hatfields and McCoys?
Was your father Devil Anse?
The violence in "Bloody Breathitt" was national news back then, but it was not cemented in history like the Hatfield v McCoy feud which involved a case going to the US Supreem Court.
In Breathitt County there were mutliple judges and political figures assassinated in the streets. One even shot on the courthouse steps in the middle of the day. The Courthouse was burned down. The elections were so out of control that there were not even any results allowed from the county in I believe the 1872 Presidential election. The ballot box was stolen from the courthouse by an armed band of Republican "election officials". Newspapers all over the country wrote stories about the violence in Breathitt County, but they painted it as a personal fued instead of political terrorism. It got to the point that even the people involved in the killing claimed it was personal because they felt the local population would forgive killing for family revenge moreso than killing over politcal power.
