Rathbone's "Ailment"

[Wild Bill]

I agree with Roger.

There was much racial violence in the South after the war which was lost. Texas seemed full of men with possible PTS.

To name two, whom I have written on, Culllen Baker and Ben Griffith. Baker would kill anyone white or black he thought was in his way. Griffith specialized in killing freedmen, often to negate labor contracts so planters would not have to pay their employees. He was so feared that whenever a white man on a bay mule rode by, freedmen took to the woods. He would shoot a black man for fun. Even ran one up a tree for an interesting shot.

This merely scratches the surface. Another who comes to mind is John Wesley Hardin. All had Civil War combat experience or trouble with Reconstruction troops enforcing "Yankee" edicts.