Hope Never to See It

Hope Never to See It illustrates two exceptional incidents of occupational and guerrilla violence in Missouri during the American Civil War. The first is a Union spy’s two-week-long murder spree targeting civilians, and the second is a pro-Confederate guerrillas’ mutilation of almost 150 U.S. troops. The men leading the atrocities (Jacob Terman, alias Harry Truman, and “Bloody” Bill Anderson) weren’t so different. Both the Union spy and the infamous Confederate guerrilla claimed to be avenging t