Editing The Outlaw Josey Wales (section)

==Plot==

During the American Civil War, the wife and son of [[Missouri in the American Civil War|Missouri]] farmer [[Josey Wales (character)|Josey Wales]] are murdered by [[Jayhawker|pro-Union paramilitaries]] led by the brutal Captain Terrill. After burying their corpses, Wales seeks vengeance for his family by joining a group of Confederate [[bushwhacker]]s under the command of [[William T. Anderson]], attacking the [[Union Army]] and pro-Union sympathizers. After the war ends in 1865, Wales's superior, Captain Fletcher, persuades his men to surrender, having been promised amnesty by Union Senator [[Jim Lane (politician)|Jim Lane]]. However, Terrill's men massacre the bushwhackers after they surrender, with Wales, Fletcher, and fellow bushwhacker Jamie being the only survivors. Wales and Jamie flee, and Lane forces Fletcher to assist Terrill in hunting them down. A mortally wounded Jamie helps Wales kill two [[bounty hunter]]s before dying.

With a $5,000 bounty on his head, Wales flees to [[Texas]]. On the way he meets elderly [[Cherokee]] man Lone Watie, who informs Wales that Confederate General [[Joseph O. Shelby]] is fleeing to [[Mexico]] and suggests they do likewise. Wales subsequently rescues young [[Navajo]] woman Little Moonlight and kills two other bounty hunters. Alongside Little Moonlight, Wales also rescues an elderly [[Kansas|Kansan]] woman Sarah Turner and her granddaughter Laura Lee from marauding [[Comanchero]]s. At the town of Santo Rio, two employees of Turner's dead son Tom, Travis and Chato, also join the group. Wales and his companions find Tom's abandoned [[ranch]] and settle down there. Discovering that Travis and Chato have been kidnapped by [[Comanche]] chief [[Ten Bears]], Wales rides into his camp and negotiates the return of the two men; an impressed Ten Bears becomes [[blood brother]]s with Wales.

A bounty hunter whose partner was killed by Wales at Santo Rio guides Terrill and his men to the town. On the following morning, Terrill's men launch a surprise attack on the ranch, but Wales's companions manage to gun them all down. A wounded and ammunitionless Wales follows the fleeing Terrill back to Santo Rio, where he corners him. A wounded Terrill attempts to draw his sabre, but Wales grabs his hand and forces the blade through Terrill's chest, killing him. Returning to the town [[Western saloon|saloon]], Wales discovers its patrons telling Fletcher, accompanied by two [[Texas Ranger Division|Texas Rangers]], that an outlaw named Josey Wales was recently killed in [[Monterrey]] by five gunmen. The Rangers accept the story and leave, while Fletcher pretends not to recognize Wales, and tells him he will go to Mexico himself to look for Wales and tell him the war is over. Wales responds by stating, "I reckon so. I guess we all died a little in that damned war." He then rides off into the sunset.