This article comes from the Winter 2022 issue of America’s Civil War magazine. “From 1861 to 1865, war-torn Missouri produced its share of guerrillas and brigands. The deeds of many Missourians who rode ‘under the black flag’—’Bushwhacker Bill’ Wilson, Cole Younger, and ‘Little Arch’ Clement, to name just a few—fell far outside the bounds of what […]