Bloody Bill Anderson vs Bloody Bill Claim

I posted this on here in another topic, but this spot looked good too. The following is part of a post of mine on another board:

"...On the other side of Dad’s family, we are Andersons. This side of the family was in Missouri as the Civil War gripped the states. The War split the family. The eldest son fought for the Union and others for the Confederacy. A brother of my father’s grandfather has the dubious reputation laid on him by some as being Bloody Bill, having miraculously survived the ambush in 1864. Of course, the real Bloody Bill, William T. Anderson, was killed that day. My father’s great uncle, William C. Anderson and his brother, James Noble Anderson, did fight but started in 1861, before William T. Anderson joined the War. A relative in Missouri tells that Uncle Bill had a dislike for the Dutch in central Missouri and spent a good deal of his time raiding there. Uncle Bill and Uncle James also spent time with Quantrill when he was in southwest Missouri fighting over the mines there. I believe this is how they get confused with William T. Anderson and his own brother James. My great uncles settled in Texas. Their older brother who fought for the Union remained on the family farm, which is still intact and in the family. He told Uncle Bill that if he returned to Missouri, he’d hang him. So, he stayed in Texas with Uncle James, great-Uncle Moses and my great grandfather David Anderson. Thus, my interest in the Civil War."