Blood Feud: The Hatfields & The McCoys (2014) - Plot & Excerpts
Snowflakes drifted down the mouth of the cave that overlooked his Peter Creek farm in Pike County, Kentucky. His leg ached at the site of its poorly healed break, but at least he had made it home from Catlettsburg in time for New Year’s. It was January 9, 1865, night would soon fall, and Harmon McCoy’s mouth was parched. His water jug lay empty, but he felt too weak to drag himself to the cave’s edge to collect some snow. The sweat dampening his black hair made it even curlier than usual. His wife, Patty, loved his curls, but he always tried to slick them down. She also liked him clean shaven, which made him just about the only man he knew who didn’t have a beard or at least a mustache. Those curls and bare cheeks made him look younger than his thirty-seven years. So to command respect when serving with his Union regiment, the 45th Kentucky Mounted Infantry, he had let his beard grow out.1 He would be with his regiment still but for his leg. When Harmon had mentioned returning to the cabin so that Patty could tend to him, Pete, his former slave, had urged him to stay hidden in the cave.
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