Devil Anse Hatfield

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William Anderson "Devil Anse" Hatfield is seated second from left with his family.
William Anderson "Devil Anse" Hatfield is seated second from left with his family.

William Anderson "Devil Anse" Hatfield (September 9, 1839January 6, 1921) was the patriarch of the Hatfield clan in the infamous American Hatfield-McCoy feud. Devil Anse himself survived the feud, and agreed to end the feud in 1891.

Hatfield formed a Confederate guerrilla fighting unit during the American Civil War that he named "The Logan Wildcats." [1]