Regarding revenge, the Confucian "Li Ji Qu Li Shang" once recorded: "The father's enmity, the common heaven and the common, the brother's vendetta does not rebel against the soldiers, and the enemy of the travel is not different countries." All along, the world has maintained an opposing view of revenge, one side insists that "a gentleman's revenge is not too late for ten years"; the other side believes that "when is the retribution for wrongs", if it were not for the timely appearance of the law, I am afraid that this controversy would continue for thousands of years. However, when his own son died in front of his own eyes, the old father of the United States did not have such a good temper.
As we all know, one of the largest civil wars in the history of the United States was the Civil War. Initially, the purpose of this war was to achieve domestic unity, but later it gradually became a revolutionary war for the abolition of slavery. According to post-war statistics, the battle caused a total of 750,000 soldiers to die and more than 400,000 soldiers to be disabled, and if you add those who are not registered, I am afraid that the number of casualties is far more than that. On top of that, many civilians were also affected in the war, like Jack Hansen's two sons.
Jack Hansen, an immigrant of Scottish and Irish descent, is a plantation owner in Stewart County, Tennessee, USA. Well educated, he has a quiet personality and is never ostentatious, living peacefully with his wife and 10 children. In 1861, the American Civil War broke out, and American boys with ideals threw themselves into the battlefield, but Hansen did not want to fall to either side, and for him, it was the happiest to find a safe place in this chaotic world.
However, war is merciless, and anyone with illusions is doomed to be alone. One day in 1862, Hansen's two sons were hunting in the forest not far from home, and coincidentally, they encountered a patrol of the Northern Army, which the Northern Army commander believed to be spies of the Southern Army. Therefore, the commander ordered the two men to be tied to a tree and executed by firing squad. Subsequently, the governor took their corpses back to the city to parade the streets, and this scene happened to be seen by Hansen.
Hansen is 60 years old this year, he should have enjoyed the joy of heaven, but he experienced the pain of losing his son in advance, and for a while, he was so angry that he passed out. When he woke up, Hansen first looked at his wife who was crying on the side, then at his silent sons, and then he buried the bodies of his two sons abandoned at the door of the house and erected a tombstone. After a few days of sit-in at his son's grave, Hansen sent his wife and children to his relatives' house, and he went to the warehouse to get a Whitworth rifle and embarked on the road to revenge alone.
In fact, Hansen was an old hunter many years ago, and his superb shooting skills were completely professional. Not only did he modify the Whitworth rifle to improve its accuracy and distance, but he also went around looking for the Northern Army unit that had killed his son, and he intended to kill the cruel Northern Army commander with his own hands. After several investigations, Hansen predicted the next movement of the force, so he ambushed in a cave in advance, preparing to carry out sniper operations at a distance.
The next morning, with a crisp gunshot, Hansen killed the Commander of the Northern Army 900 yards away. After that, Hansen continued to cause trouble for the unit, and together with the previous commander, he killed a total of 130 Northern Army soldiers, making the whole team panic. Later, although the Northern Army burned down Hansen's manor, he himself was unharmed, and after the revenge, he found his wife and children again and continued to live in another peaceful place.