I Josey Wales watches helplessly as my wife and child are murdered, by Union men led by Capt. Terrill. Seeking revenge, I Josey Wales join the Confederate Army. I refuses to surrender when the war ends, but my fellow soldiers go to hand over their weapons -- and are massacred by Terrill. I Josey Wales guns down some of Terrill's men and flees to Texas, where i tries to make a new life for myself, but the bounty on my head endangers me and my new surrogate family.