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The Write Team Daily: "Bloody Bill"
September 27, 1864. Centralia, Missouri.
It began as another day of robbery.
It ended as one of the bloodiest episodes of guerrilla warfare during the American Civil War.
Approximately 80 pro-Confederate guerrillas led by William T. “Bloody Bill” Anderson rode into Centralia, Missouri. Among the riders were young men whose names would later become synonymous with the Old West—Jesse James, Frank James, and Cole Younger.
After looting the town, Anderson's guerrillas stopped a passenger train and discovered Union soldiers traveling home on furlough.
Twenty-four unarmed servicemen were ordered…
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