While in Texas, Quantrill and his 400 men quarreled. Anderson was born sometime between 1837 and 1839 in Hopkins County, Kentucky, to William C. and Martha Anderson. Returning to Missouri in the spring of 1864 and free of Quantrill’s oversight, Anderson’s men disguised themselves as Union soldiers and staged a series of raids in which they ambushed federal troops and murdered or even scalped civilians. Later Anderson’s body was buried in the Old City Cemetery of Richmond, Missouri. After photographing his dead body they cut off his head and mounted it on top of a telegraph pole in town. A westbound train loaded with 25  Federal soldiers came into view. By Richard F. Welch. But Quantrill’s Raiders are a fascinating part of Grayson County and North Texas history as well. His family had been living in Council Grove, Territory of Kansas at the start of the war. William T. Anderson is known as the vilest and most notorious confederate guerrilla leader from the civil war. When one thinks of William Quantrill, Bloody Bill Anderson, and men like the James and Younger Brothers, they may automatically think of Missouri and Kansas. Anderson soon became the most notorious guerrilla in Missouri, increasing his local support network and attracting bloodthirsty recruits, including Jesse James. Went to jail, and later found not guilty. By the time of his death, it purportedly displayed 53 knots. Despite not owning any slaves, the Andersons were deeply proslavery. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. In … The initial murders and the aftermath became known as the Centralia Massacre. After being captured, Baker distanced himself from the Anderson family, issuing a warrant for the arrest of William’s brother, Griffith. William Anderson’s father and uncle were named as such. William C. "Bloody Bill" Anderson - 1924 Below is one of the articles written by Brownwood Banner - Bulletin staff writer Henry C. Fuller after Interviewing William C. "Bloody Bill" Anderson of Quantrill's Guerrillas of the Civil War at his home at Salt Creek, Brown County, Texas in 1924. One month later, on October 26, Anderson was killed near Orrick, Missouri leading a charge against 300 Federals led by Major Samuel P. Cox of the 1st Regiment, Missouri State Militia. He lives in Raytown, Missouri. The Union force arrived in Centralia shortly after Anderson left. As William T. was born that year it is possible he was born in or around Huntsville, Missouri, or he may have been born in Hopkins County, Kentucky; Jefferson County, … A very early, yet incomplete listing of Quantrill's original men. Evacuation of Missouri Counties under General Order No. The guerrilla war that raged in Kansas and Missouri between 1861 and 1865 has always received more attention than its marginal effect on the outcome of the Civil War would seem to warrant. Fueled at least in part by revenge against Ewing, Quantrill led approximately 450 Confederate raiders into pro … After a separate skirmish that took place later in the day, sometimes known as the Battle of Centralia, Anderson’s men ambushed the outgunned Unionist pursuers, and his men mutilated and tortured the federal survivors of the battle. By Matthew E. Stanley, Albany State University. A name associated with William Quantrill and Jesse James, Bloody Bill Anderson was known for never taking prisoners. Quantrill was known to spare numerous men, yet "Bloody Bill" never showed any mercy. The most recent study on Anderson is Castel and Goodrich, Bloody Bill Anderson: The Short, Savage Life of a Civil War Guerrilla(Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, 1998), who do not cite any of the cur-rent Quantrill secondary material but have based the book upon new primary sources. The outbreak of the Civil War saw an increased demand for horses, and Anderson began stealing horses and selling them along the Santa Fe Trail. This tragedy drove Anderson to the acts that earned him the moniker "Bloody Bill." Frank James Jesse James American Civil War American History Old West Outlaws Lawrence Kansas Rebel Yell Confederate States Of America Civil War Photos. Fueled at least in part by revenge against Ewing, Quantrill led approximately 450 Confederate raiders into pro-Union Lawrence, Kansas, on August 21, 1863, killing between 160-190 male citizens and burning and looting much of the town. After a skirmish with a US marshal and posse, the Raiders split into small groups. Anderson soon became the most notorious guerrilla in Missouri, increasing his local support network and attracting bloodthirsty recruits, including Jesse James. Before the firing stopped, Anderson’s men overran the train. Both girls would carry their battered bodies and emotional scars for years to come. On October 27, while Price retreated south after a disastrous defeat at Westport, Lt. Col. Samuel P. Cox and 150 men of the 33rd and 51st Enrolled Missouri Militia were hunting Anderson. See more ideas about american civil war, civil war, civil war era. War is a horrible endeavor. He was known as the most… Anderson and his men, including George M. Todd, Archie Clement, and Frank James, purportedly conducted themselves with excessive brutality. Charles H. Lothrop, History of the First Regiment Iowa Cavalry, pg 188. Quantrill escaped and Anderson was ordered to capture him, but gave up pursuit. W. How-To Tutorials; Suggestions; Machine Translation Editions; Noahs Archive Project; About Us. It was at Sears Farm that the First Missouri and Iowa … When asked why he joined Quantrill, Anderson replied by saying, “I have chosen guerrilla warfare to revenge myself for wrongs that I could not honorable revenge otherwise. Heavily mythologized, Anderson has been featured in a variety of popular culture media, including a character in the film The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976). The story of the union troops killing his Father and Uncle are false. His Father was murdered by another local man he was in a personal dispute with. This roster was found by yankee troops on one of the dead Missouri Partisan Rangers after the Battle at Pleasant Hill, Missouri on July 11, 1862. Buried in Pioneer Cemetery, Richmond, Missouri. Anderson carried a silken cord which displayed a knot for each Yankee life he took. Anderson stayed in Sherman in a house there, and had one child who died as an infant. A brief battle ensued in which Anderson was shot in the head and died instantly. Moberly (Missouri) Evening Democrat, August 15, 1924. Hunting Anderson were 158 mounted riflemen from the 39th Missouri Infantry under Major A.V.E. “Quantrill’s intuition, or military genius, led him to anticipate the move of the enemy and to be ready for them. Anderson has often been accused of having Federal scalps attached to his saddle bows. Two days later Bill and his brother Jim were both riding with William Quantrill. Taking a feminist lens to the Civil War in Missouri–known for its models of hypermasculinity like William Quantrill, “Bloody Bill” Anderson, Frank and Jesse James, Cole Younger, and William H. Gregg–it becomes readily apparent that white women were as married to the war as their Confederate menfolk. By the time of his death, it purportedly displayed 53 knots. As followers of William Quantrill and "Bloody Bill" Anderson, they were accused of participating in atrocities against Union soldiers and civilian abolitionists, including the Centralia Massacre in 1864. Some 150 people were killed in this outrage and Bill Anderson was believed to have killed at least a dozen of them personally. The Federals shot the two men from their saddles. Along with the likes of Quantrill, the Youngers, Frank James, Anderson’s brand of warfare involved ambush, rape, espionage, arson, infighting, scalping, beheading, torture, theft, ethnic vendetta, and even outright massacre. A highly decorated Master Sergeant in the United States Marine Corps and a combat infantry veteran of Vietnam and Desert Storm, Petersen is uniquely qualified to interpret the nature of guerrilla warfare that characterized the Civil War along the Missouri–Kansas border. Anderson questioned the soldiers and told them how Union troops had recently killed and scalped a number of men from his command. Another Sherman resident recalled afterwards, "One of Quantrill's captains married a popular young lady of Sherman, and was afterwards killed in guerrilla warfare." On the home front, meanwhile, Anderson’s sisters, having operated as Confederate spies, were arrested by Union authorities under the command of the hated Union General Thomas Ewing Jr. After arresting and confining a number of suspected female spies to a makeshift jail in Kansas City, the building collapsed, killing one of Anderson’s sisters among other victims. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. He was known as the most… His schoolmates recalled him as a well-behaved, reserved child. He was a man who killed, butchered and severed countless union soldiers and their sympathizers. Anderson, still reeling from the recent loss of his closest men, announced, “You Federals have just killed six of my men, scalped them, and left them on the prairie. The guerrillas surrounded the cars. Quantrill’s guerrillas likely sought retribution for these attacks on Missouri. Sometimes he left the bodies of dead Federal soldiers scalped, skinned, and castrated. But Quantrill’s Raiders are a fascinating part of Grayson County and North Texas history as well. Price ordered the scalps removed before he would talk to the guerrilla leaders. During his childhood, Anderson's family moved to Huntsville, Missouri where his father found employment on a farm and the family became well respected. The atrocity only showed the deep hatred of the Union troops toward the guerrillas and the brutal deeds of which they were capable. Was "Bloody Bill" Anderson, ruthless Civil War guerrilla, second in depravity only to William Quantrill, ever active in our White River Country in the early days of the Rebellion? In the spring of 1865, now leading only a few dozen pro-confederates, Quantrill staged a series of raids in western … Bloody Bill Anderson "The most effective partisan was 'Bloody Bill' Anderson, who had split from Quantrill with about fifty followers - all of them pathological killers like their leader. I know that in the Kemp Cemetery there is a grave of a soldier who was in the 6th Missouri. The true account was that Bill Anderson along with his brother were taking a herd of beef and forage to Fort Leavenworth to sell to the U.S. Army. Union forces under Lieutenant Colonel Samuel P. Cox, a former army scout, finally caught up with Anderson and his approximately 150 men on October 27, 1864. We use cookies. I will show you that I can kill men with as much skill and rapidity as anybody. A. Baker, the family personally experienced the “Bleeding Kansas” conflict over slavery that had embroiled the territory. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. (Last Privacy Policy Update July 2020), Byways & Historic Trails – Great Drives in America, Soldiers and Officers in American History, Snow Bound, Alone, and Surrounded by Wild Varmints. Having robbed Unionist Congressman James S. Collins, captured a Union passenger train, and murdered 22 furloughed Union soldiers who had surrendered, Anderson’s men were pursued by 39th Missouri Volunteer (Union) Infantry. “Bloody Bill” Anderson and his associates went on to earn ignominious reputations for torture and mutilation. Pringle and some of his men reportedly had Federal scalps hanging from their horses’ bridle bits. William Quantrill Bloody Bill Anderson Frank and Jesse James Belle Starr Cole Younger Younger brothers He took part in his company into town to search for much-needed supplies. • A Belgian comic series, Les Tuniques Bleues ("The Blue Coats", first printed in 1994) depicts Quantrill as twisted, even psychotic. Appraisals by recent historians, however, have situated Anderson within the world of slavery politics, political violence, and wartime atrocity from which he arose. George Maddox.Rode with William Quantrill,and Bloody Bill Anderson. Quantrill's Raiders are a major element in Wildwood Boys (William Morrow, New York; 2000), a biographical novel of "Bloody Bill" Anderson by James Carlos Blake. John Langford was born May 15, 1836, in Anderson County, Kentucky, and was a member of Company B, 15th Kentucky Infantry, the band of scouts who pursued Quantrill’s band. Bloody Bill Anderson: The Short, Savage Life of a Civil War Guerrilla. Reported killed 10 May 1867 in Texas by George H. Shepherd to avenge his part in the murder and robbery of Ike Flannery, Shepherd's nephew. Here Quantrill and Bloody Bill quarrelled, with Bloody Bill leaving the band. By 1860 Anderson had become a property owner and went into the freight shipping business with his father and began horse trading. At the Lawrence, Kansas Massacre. For more information about the atrocities committed in the Centralia Massacre and the following skirmish, Civil War on the Western Border: The Missouri-Kansas Conflict, 1854-1865, read this PBS American Experience discussion, Bloody Bill Anderson: The Short, Savage Life of a Civil War Guerrilla, A Savage Conflict: The Decisive Roles of Guerrillas in the American Civil War. I have never allowed my men to do such things.” One sergeant was singled out and spared for an exchange for one of Anderson’s men recently captured. Quantrill was known to spare numerous men, yet "Bloody Bill" never showed any mercy. Stiles, T.J. Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War. 200 men and boys were murdered by Quantrill’s men, with Bloody Bill living up to the nickname by which he is known to history. Johnston. Gary, I note the article contains references. Anderson removed his sisters from Kansas where for a year they lived at various places stopping finally with the Mundy family on the Missouri side of the line near Little Santa Fe. My own G Grandfather was a Confederate Partisan Ranger who rode for Moses W. Hannon. “Quantrill’s Raiders Recognized by Texas as a Confederate Unit,” Kansas City Star, October 8, 1949. Cox became a Union hero, and Anderson’s death later became the motivation for Jesse James’s 1869 bank robbery in Gallatin, Missouri, in which he mistakenly shot someone whom he believed to be Cox. By 1864 most of the older guerrillas who fought for the Confederacy had died, gone home or joined the regular Confederate army. By the time of his death in 1864 Anderson had become one of the most sought after men in Missouri and had left a trail of blood and hatred across the west and central portions of the state. Carter had long black curly hair, and the Federals believed they had killed Anderson. Jun 9, 2019 - Explore Cathy Forrester's board "Quantrill Raiders", followed by 126 people on Pinterest. Anderson’s sisters, having operated as Confederate spies, were arrested by Union authorities under the command of the hated Union General Thomas Ewing Jr. In some instances, he set a deliberate ambush,” says author McCarter. See more ideas about american civil war, civil war, guerrilla. Stanley, Matthew. On September 27th, Anderson was camped outside Centralia, Missouri. William T. “Bloody Bill” Anderson was a southern sympathizing bushwhacker born in Missouri and raised in Kansas. © Paul R. Petersen, updated October 2019. 4, pg 354. Anderson was soon promoted to lieutenant, achieving a quasi-independent command, and partook in raids in Westport, the state of Kansas, and Lafayette County, Missouri. When the Jayhawker company arrived at the Anderson farm on March 11th, William and his younger brother Jim were delivering 15 head of cattle to the U.S. commissary agent at Fort Leavenworth. D'autres fermiers du Missouri recrutés dans ce groupe deviennent le gang criminel James-Younger après la guerre. Because Bloody Bill and Quantrill was causing so many problems for the Federals, it was decided that all the women and girls associated with the Confederate fighters would be captured, arrested, and detained in the Union Hotel. William T. Anderson is known as the vilest and most notorious confederate guerrilla leader from the civil war. The most recent study on Anderson is Castel and Goodrich, Bloody Bill Anderson: The Short, Savage Life of a Civil War Guerrilla(Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, 1998), who do not cite any of the cur-rent Quantrill secondary material but … Shepherd slit Anderson's throat on the lawn of the state capital building in Austin, TX. In the song "Frank and Jesse James" on his 1976 eponymous album, Warren Zevon sings about young Frank and Jesse James when "they joined up with Quantrill" just after "war broke out between the states". His once-large band broke up into several smaller guerrilla companies. Hence, the name given to him, bloody bill, was due to his contribution in the war. “Bloody Bill” Anderson During their winter in Texas, Quantrill’s lieutenant, William “Bloody Bill” Anderson , took some of the men to organize his own group. Sometimes he decapitated them and … Stephens, Bill: Anderson : Stevenson, Robert: Quantrill: Listed on a roster containing ninety-two names of Quantrill's men. Anderson’s biggest objection to Quantrill was that he wasn’t intent on killing enough Unionists. In revenge Bill killed the neighbor then fled to Missouri and joined Quantrill. Paul R. Petersen, Quantrill of Missouri, Cumberland Publishing Co., 2003 By 1863, all Bill had left was a brother and two sisters that miraculously survived the August 13 Union jail collapse in Kansas City when Union guards from the 9th Kansas Jayhawker Regiment, serving as provost guards in town, intentionally collapsed a three-story brick building on a number of young Southern female prisoners. On July 2, 1862, William murdered Baker, burned his home, and fled to Missouri. Because I would not fight the people of Missouri, my native State, the Yankees sought my life but failed to get me. Other accounts report that the Jayhawkers relieved themselves over Anderson’s grave in an act of sheer depravity. Bill’s ten-year-old sister Martha’s legs were horribly crushed crippling her for life while his sixteen-year-old sister Molly suffered serious back injuries and facial lacerations. Jul 16, 2015 - Explore Allen Welty's board "Quantrill" on Pinterest. The other was 17-year-old Buck Collins, who was foraging for food with Carter when they were cut off and surrounded at a farmhouse by twenty-five Federals looking for Anderson. Was "Bloody Bill" Anderson in the White River Country in 1861? Jesse James and Anderson killed Flannery for his inherited money. Most agree that his actions and persona embodied some of the war’s most savage aspects. Please post a … 11. Anderson carried a silken cord which displayed a knot for each Yankee life he took. When the brothers returned to their farm they found their father and uncle hanged in retaliation, their home burned to the ground, and all their possessions were stolen. He had a small group of bushwhackers ride around the prairie near Centralia where he knew they would be spotted. 1, vol. Born in the late 1830s, by Hardy A. Kemp. He is often accused of brutality and atrocities towards his Union enemies but, Anderson’s own words belie that mistaken belief. This writer’s purpose … The true explanations surrounding the horrible acts directed towards William “Bloody Bill” Anderson are much more interesting than the irresponsible sensationalized accounts of his actions that his detractors have tried to perpetuate since his death. Oct 4, 2017 - Explore Celia Mater's board "Quantrill" on Pinterest. One was 17-year-old Al Carter, who had moved his family to Howard County from Kansas City because of General Ewing’s General Order No. In 1864 when Anderson rode east toward Boonville, Missouri to meet General Sterling Price as he was making his last raid into Missouri, Anderson split up his command in order to seek food and shelter from sympathizing farmers in the area. After a robbery near Council Grove in May 1863, Quantrill’s men were ambushed by federal troops and forced to split up. Fuller’s resulting news article in the Brownwood Bulletin described Anderson’s claim to be the notorious Civil War Guerrilla, William “Bloody Bill” Anderson of Quantrill fame, and his fictitious escape from the Ray County ambush near Orrick, Missouri where history maintains Bloody Bill Anderson was killed in 1864. For more information on the Quantrill Raiders, Bloody Bill Anderson, John McCorkle, William Clarke Quantrill, and all the other brave souls that fought to preserve the safety and rights of the fair citizens of Missouri, consider some of the following as Christmas gifts for those brave souls you love and treasure. Our cookies are delicious. Bill Anderson soon became a Confederate guerrilla with Quantrill’s Raiders, the most prominent and feared Confederate guerrilla group in the Kansas–Missouri area. Official Records of the Rebellion, ser. When one thinks of William Quantrill, Bloody Bill Anderson, and men like the James and Younger Brothers, they may automatically think of Missouri and Kansas. https://civilwaronthewesternborder.org/encyclopedia/anderson-william-%E2... Collapse of the Union Women’s Prison in Kansas City, Date of birth: sources range from 1837 to 1839, Claim to fame: Confederate guerrilla; Captain of Quantrill's Raiders, 1863-1864, Date of death: October 27, 1864 (some sources state October 26; see, Cause of death: Killed by Union soldiers in the Battle of Albany, Final resting place: Pioneer Cemetery, Richmond, Missouri. Albert Castel, William Clarke Quantrill: His Life and Times (New York: Fell, 1962). Cox learned the location of Anderson’s camp and sent a detachment to engage him. Sutherland, Daniel E. A Savage Conflict: The Decisive Roles of Guerrillas in the American Civil War. For more information about the atrocities committed in the Centralia Massacre and the following skirmish, read this PBS American Experience discussion from a panel of Civil War experts. Quantrill, Anderson, and the rest of the guerrillas sought to make good on Jim Vaughan’ promise, and that they did! As the fighting heated up, the soldiers retreated down a … (As is most all war) Horrible war creates horrible men. His family moved to Huntsville, Missouri, as a child, and in 1857 the Andersons moved again, to Kansas, and settled near Council Grove. William "Bloody Bill" Anderson's body photographed and on display for public viewing hours after his death in Richmond, Missouri by Colonel Cox and his Union forces. Nickname: "Bloody Bill" Anderson. Peterson is uniquely able to write a historical re-creation of Captain Andersen only as regards his sympathies, NOT REALITIES…. Eyewitnesses at the scene described how the soldiers on board with rifles crowded the windows and the platforms and fired briskly at the guerrillas. Survived War Brother of "Bloody Bill" Anderson. Bloody Bill Anderson: The Short, Savage Life of a Civil War guerrilla by Albert Castel and Thomas Goodrich The Devil Knows How to Ride by Edward Leslie We Rode With Quantrill : Quantrill and the Guerrilla War as Told by the Men and Women Who Were with Him, A True Sketch of Quantrill's Life by Donald Hale 11, by George Caleb Bingham, 1870. Afterward Price received Anderson’s report of his summer activities along the Missouri River and in reply stated that if he had fifty thousand men such as Anderson he could hold Missouri for the South indefinitely. Hence, the name given to him, bloody bill, was due to his contribution in the war. See more ideas about Civil war photos, American civil war, Confederate states of america. Their leader was William Quantrill and they included Jesse James and his brother Frank. As Unionist retaliation increased, most notably by way of Ewing’s Order No. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. Fuller’s resulting news article in the Brownwood Bulletin described Anderson’s claim to be the notorious Civil War Guerrilla, William “Bloody Bill” Anderson of Quantrill fame, and his fictitious escape from the Ray County ambush near Orrick, Missouri where history maintains Bloody Bill Anderson was killed in 1864. An unusual event made a guerrilla out of William Anderson. Anderson soon became the most notorious guerrilla in Missouri, increasing his local support network and attracting bloodthirsty recruits, including Jesse James. Southern sympathizers among the local women had carried flowers to decorate the grave. Noté /5. As usual, Bloody Bill knew the soldiers were coming and set a trap. Tensions between Anderson and Quantrill began to develop with Anderson eventually having Quantrill arrested for the murder of a Confederate officer. It was said that as a child he was well behaved. Lieutenant Bill Anderson and Miss Bush Smith were actually married on March 2, 1864 just before Anderson left to go back to Missouri for the spring campaign. Operating against Unionists in the midst of the guerrilla war in Missouri and Kansas, he was a leading figure in the infamous Lawrence Massacre and the Centralia Massacre, gaining the nickname “Bloody Bill” for the perceived savagery of his exploits. Like Quantrill and James, postwar histories cast Anderson as either a sadistic murderer or a dashing Confederate cavalier. On October 26, 1864, the notorious Confederate guerrilla leader William “Bloody Bill” Anderson is killed in Missouri in a Union ambush. Research has discovered the truth behind this fabrication. Mar 12, 2015 - A Collection of Missouri and Partisan ranger original images of From this time on I ask no quarter and give none.” When the soldiers protested, Anderson replied, “You are Federals, and Federals scalped my men, and carry their scalps at their saddle bows. During the 1850s, the Andersons moved to Kansas where his family was respected and by 1860 Anderson … George Scholl, Letter, collection of Claiborne Scholl Nappier. When William sought to have the warrant suspended, a quarrel ensued in which Baker shot and killed the Anderson patriarch. Jim Cummins, Jim Cummins’ Book, 1903, reprint, Provo, Utah: Triton Press, 1988. For more information on the Quantrill Raiders, Bloody Bill Anderson, John McCorkle, William Clarke Quantrill, and all the other brave souls that fought to preserve the safety and rights of the fair citizens of Missouri, consider some of the following as Christmas gifts for those brave … Soldiers were coming and set a trap of birth is uncertain but likely was. 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