Wikipedia begins its section entitled “Feud” with a largely apocryphal story of the death of Asa Harmon McCoy. The first sentence is: “Asa Harmon McCoy, who was despised by Jim Vance (uncle of Devil Anse Hatfield) for joining the Union Army during the Civil War, was discharged from the army early because of a broken leg.” How Wiki knows that Jim Vance despised Asa Harmon because if his Union service is not stated, but if he “despised” every man on Peter Creek who served the Union, he was a man literally overflowing with enmity. There were two Union Home Guards on Peter Creek, each with over 50 members. Several dozen Peter Creek men were members of Colonel John Dils’s 39th Mounted Infantry, while fewer than a dozen Peter Creek men served the Confederacy.
This essay, in its entirety, can be read in my book, “Lies, Damned Lies, and Feud Tales.” https://www.amazon.com/dp/1977716814/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1511238586&sr=1-1&keywords=Lies%2C+Damned+Lies%2C+and+Feud+Tales