Personal allegiances to one faction or another, as well as sensationalized press accounts during and after the series of events provide for a variance of details concerning the Jones-Liddell feud.

Both of these rivaling plantation owners arrived in Catahoula Parish at approximately the same time (1837–1840), and each would later serve in the Confederate Army.

After reaching the age of adulthood, he moved to Catahoula Parish on the Black River, and constructed a plantation which he named "Llanada" near Harrisonburg, Louisiana.

Liddell had attended West Point, and was a personal friend of future Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

Phillip and Eliza Nichols, who were personal friends of the Liddell family, owned a prominent piece of land that Jones greatly coveted.

Mrs. Eliza Nichols made a personal request for Liddell to accompany her in confronting Jones about his efforts to disparage her character.

As Mrs. Nichols approached Jones, however, she pulled out a pistol and shot him in the face, an action that Liddell claimed he did not expect from her, nor have prior knowledge of.

The tensions would continue to escalate, and each family found themselves consumed with fortifying their respective plantations, and stocking up on guns and ammunition.

[5] Tensions between the two feuding families found a temporary reprieve, when Jones and his wife left for Ohio for a period of four years.

In 1852, Jones made his return to his plantation on the Black River, accompanied by hired assassins, including one notoriously known as such by the name of Richard Pryor according to Liddell.

[5] Sam Smith, a nephew of Jones, added his name to the list of those publicly professing he would kill Liddell.

On June 26, 1852, Samuel Glenn and a neighbor of Liddell's by the name of Moses Wiggins were ambushed by the road near "Trinity."

[2] According to Liddell: During these early years of reconstruction, a political divide was created that ultimately resulted in terror and lawlessness throughout the south.

Only days before President Lincoln's assassination, he installed William Pitt Kellogg as the federal collector of customs in New Orleans.

Upon receiving this news, Jones gathered his sons and took off by horseback to a loading dock south of his own landing.

[13] Moses "Judge" Liddell moved his family from the area, taking residence in Richland Parish on the banks of Boeuf River.

He later moved to Monroe, and was appointed by Democratic President Grover Cleveland as a justice on the Supreme Court of territorial Montana.

[14] Cuthburt Jones, having narrowly survived the lynch mob, made a trip to Washington, where he met with President Grant and relayed the tragic events of the feud.

Louisiana Democrats later called upon President Grover Cleveland to rescind Cuthbert's consul appointment in 1885, alleging he was a "known murderer.