Fletcher in Outlaw Josey Wales

[Rover]

I am a little puzzled by the character of Fletcher in The Outlaw Josey Wales

When persuading the band of Southern ‘hold-outs’ to turn themselves in, he speaks the following words: ‘Everyone else has done it but us. We are the last of the hold-outs. I’m going in boys, I’ve had enough.’ This suggests that he belongs to this group of hold-outs.

However, his conversations with the wicked governor in the Union camp suggest that he is a regular Union agent, whose task it is to round-up rebel remnants.

My theory is that Fletcher is indeed a regular agent, whose mode of operation is to join a group of hold-outs and winning their confidence, before persuading them to turn themselves in.

Am I right?

[Philo Beddoe Jr]

I think he was a rebel who later on in the course of the war made connections with the Union.

WKC.

[HK-47]

I agree with WKC.

[paulk]

I also agree Fletcher was a rebel.  He made an agreement with the union for his own benefit but had no idea that the others were going to be gunned down.  Watch when Fletcher is in the union tent before the others are shot and also when Fletcher sees the "red legs" are involved.