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The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Bloody Bill Andersonthe Centralia Massacre (9/23/1864)-Feb 16th, 2005
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Posted on 02/15/2005 10:05:11 PM PST by SAMWolf



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William "Bloody Bill" Anderson


One of the most feared of all Missouri guerillas was William T Anderson who actually considered himself a Kansan. It was said that he carried a silk cord on which knots were tied for every Yankee killed and that he sometimes frothed at the mouth during battle. His was also known to scalp his Federal victims, which is probably one reason why he received the name of "Bloody Bill." Bill was described as being tall, sinewy and lithe with long black hair that curled and fell to his shoulders. He had prominent cheekbones and small angry eyes.


William "Bloody Bill" Anderson


William was born in Randolph County, Missouri in 1840. His parents were William and Martha (Thomason) Anderson. Bill was one of six children who included Ellis, James, Mary C, Josephine and Martha. Also living with them were his grandparents, William and Martha Thomason. His father was a hatter and the family moved from Palmyra, Missouri to Huntsville, Missouri between 1847-1848.

In 1850, the father went to California to join the gold rush leaving the family in Huntsville. During this time, Bill and his brothers were the heads of the family and their relationship with their sisters were both brotherly and fatherly. The father returned in 1854 and the family relocated to Breckinridge Co, Kansas (which is now Lyon County) in 1857.

In March of 1862, his father was murdered while Bill and his brother, Jim were on a trip to Fort Leavenworth. The murders were either Pro-Northern neighbors or a squad of Union soldiers. There are several accounts of the murder. One account claims that Union soldiers hanged him because his name appeared on a list of southern sympathizers. Another account says that a neighbor who accused him of horse theft murdered him. Bloody Bill later killed this same neighbor.



When Bill and his brother returned home that evening and found their father dead, his campaign of revenge began that same evening when he sneaked up behind a Union picket and broke his neck. The next night he killed another Union soldier and was almost caught by a federal calvaryman and had to shoot him in order to escape. He left that same night for the Missouri border and joined up with Quantrill.

In August of 1863, Federals arrested his three sisters along with other some other women in an attempt to draw out the guerilla soldiers. They imprisoned the women in a makeshift prison located in a building in Kansas City. Mysteriously, this building collapsed killing his sister Josephine and maiming Mary for life. This event was the reason cited behind the attack on Lawrence and intensified Bill’s hatred of the Federals.

Bill was content to ride with Quantrill, being a follower instead of a leader until a quarrel with Quantrill in 1864 caused him to form his own band of guerillas. This band included 16 year old Jesse James and they became the most feared band of all guerillas. Bloody Bill showed no mercy to Union soldiers and killed them on sight. He showed no sympathy to Pro-northerners and raided their homes and stores, murdering those that offered resistance. There is only one known case of when he spared the life of a union officer and he did so because he admired his bravery. There are other accounts of his band robbing southern sympathizers and returning the loot with apologies when their loyalties were revealed.



On March 2, 1864, Bloody Bill married Bush Smith, a young girl from Sherman, Texas but this did nothing to curtail his taste for blood and his need for revenge. They moved to a small farmhouse in Ray County, Missouri.

In a letter sent to a local newspaper, Bloody Bill wrote, "I have chosen guerilla warfare to revenge myself for the wrongs that I could not honorably avenge otherwise. I lived in Kansas when the war commenced. Because I would not fight the people of Missouri, my native state, the Yankees sought my life but failed to get me. Revenged themselves by murdering my father, destroying all my property, murdered one of my sisters and have kept the other two in jail for 12 months. But I have fully glutted my vengeance. I have killed many, I am a guerilla. I have never belonged to the Confederate Army, nor do my men."

On Oct 26, 1864, just south of Richmond in Ray County, Missouri, Bill and his guerilla band was ambushed by Captain Samuel P Cox and his union troops. They were caught completely unaware. A skirmish ensued and it is said that Bill and another of his men rode right through the Federal line. When his comrade was shot from his horse, Bill turned around to assist him and it was at this time that he was riddled with bullets and killed. Upon examining the personal items found on his body, he had seven pistols, $600 in cash and 2 watches. Private papers found in his saddlebags from General Price identified him as William T Anderson.


Partisan Ranger Memorial in Albany, Missouri (North of Orrick)


Bill’s body was taken to Richmond, Missouri where it was propped up in a chair and a pistol was placed in the dead mans hand for photographs. A short time later, the Union troopers decapitated him and placed his head on a telegraph pole at the entrance to the town. His torso was roped and tied to a horse where it was dragged through the streets of Richmond before being buried in an unmarked grave outside of town.

Years later, Cole Younger visited the site of Bloody Bills grave and requested that a funeral procession be held for him, in which is was. His grave was marked years later.

As with the other legendary guerillas, it is claimed that another man who resembled Bloody Bill was riding Bill’s horse on that fateful night near Richmond and that he was the one whom they identified as "Bloody Bill." One claim is that Bill Anderson changed his name and escaped to Erin Springs, Oklahoma where he ran a saloon. Another report was that Bill settled in Salt Creek, Brown County, Texas where he lived for about sixty years under an assumed name. There may be some truth to this last report as a man resembling "Bloody Bill" died there on November 2, 1927 and found on his bedside table was a photograph of three young women who were later identified as the sisters of William T "Bloody Bill" Anderson.







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To: alfa6
Morning alfa6.

I am prepared to be fleeced :-) Ain't that the truth and a shame?

21 posted on 02/16/2005 6:31:04 AM PST by SAMWolf (What goes around usually gets dizzy and falls over.)
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To: SAMWolf

'Anderson's Warning' by Cathy Barton, Booneville Mo.

You sons of Missouri, in towns and on farms,
I hear you´ve been urged to go taking up arms,
To fight the guerrillas wherever they´re found—
Take such a step and walk perilous ground.
Remember we hide in the bush all around.
I can´t save you traitors from a terrible end,
Like wolves we will hunt you down both me and my men.
Fools that you are, you can´t run and can´t hide;
My eyes will be on you; watch how you decide.
Death will await those who choose the wrong side.

My name´s Captain Anderson; I hunt and I kill.
I am a guerrilla; I´m a Devil from Hell.

For my dear sister´s death I will kill till I´m killed,
Now there never can be enough Yankee blood spilled.
Jo was crushed as the walls of her prison caved in,
The Feds did it on purpose and they´ll pay for that sin.
And they´ll pay and they´ll pay, boys, again and again.
´Round my waist I keep a cord of the finest of silk,
And I´ve tied a knot in it for each Yank that I´ve killed.
There´s dozens of knots that I´ve put in the cord;
Each knot´s one step closer to evenin´ the score.
But it ain´t never enough, boys, I only want more.

My name´s Captain Anderson; I hunt and I kill.
I am a guerrilla; I´m a Devil from Hell.

One day we rode into Centralia town,
We broke into shops; we robbed the people we found.
Stole a barrel of whiskey from the local saloon,
And we drank and we had fun, boys, till just about noon.
When the real fun would be enterin´ the town mighty soon.
As the sun was a-blazing high up in the sky,
The train from St. Louis was just passing by.
We threw ties on the rails and then we forced ourselves in,
And to our delight there sat Federal men,
unarmed and on furlough—right there in our hands.
We forced them all out; we lined ´em all in a row,
With our guns we´d put each damn Yank on parole.
I says to Arch Clements, “Go on, muster ´em out!”
Then that whole row of Feds fell with screams and with shouts.
We shot ´em till bodies lay littered about.

My name´s Captain Anderson; more feared than Quantrill.
He may spare a Federal, but I never will.

More Feds soon pursued us, but we knew they would come,
We tore through their lines; we shot and killed every one.
Jesse James shot Major Johnson, sent him screaming to Hell.
For a beardless young boy, I believe he´ll do well—
Someday that young Jess might make a name for himself.
So come all you Missouri boys, take warning by me,
No quarter will I give to any traitor I see.
I´ve already killed dozens. Dozens more will I kill,
And if you dare oppose me your fate it is sealed.
If at first I don't get you, the next time I will.

My name´s Captain Anderson; I hunt and I kill.
I am a guerrilla; I´m a Devil from Hell




I suppose many of us are fascinated and repulsed at the same time by figures such as Anderson. He and others were legendary in Vernon County where I grew up. My old Grand Uncle Guy Weddle used to tell us kids stories about the 'bushwackers'. He once said that on occassion the Youngers and Dalton gangs would stop at his fathers farm and have a fried chicken dinner and take care of their horses. Before moving on they would pay for the favor with coin. He said that there was a big difference between men that were called 'outlaws' and men like Anderson who were just plain mean and crazy.

Thanks for the piece Sam.


22 posted on 02/16/2005 6:31:07 AM PST by Lee Heggy ("In Missouri we don't call them "Guerrillas")
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To: E.G.C.

Morning E.G.C.


23 posted on 02/16/2005 6:31:43 AM PST by SAMWolf (What goes around usually gets dizzy and falls over.)
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To: Lee Heggy

Morning Lee.

Thanks for the lead on the story. Interesting Poem.


24 posted on 02/16/2005 6:33:53 AM PST by SAMWolf (What goes around usually gets dizzy and falls over.)
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To: snippy_about_it; SAMWolf; All

Good morning everyone, interesting, in depth article. Like one poster said, it's hard to find accurate information on this sad and vile chapter of the Civil War (War of Northern Aggression).

Cheers!


25 posted on 02/16/2005 6:49:20 AM PST by SZonian (Tagline???? I don't need no stinkin' tagline!)
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To: SAMWolf

On This Day In History


Birthdates which occurred on February 16:
1075 Ordericus Vitalis French monk/historian/poet
1497 Philipp Melanchthon Germany, Protestant reformer (Augsburgse Confessie)
1620 Frederick William Great Elector, founder of Brandenburg-Prussia
1698 Pierre Bouguer French mathematician (heliometer)
1788 Juan van Halen Dutch/Spanish officer/adventurer
1807 Lysander Cutler Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1866
1812 Henry Wilson (R) 18th Vice-President (1873-75)
1813 Joseph Reid Anderson Brigadier General (Confederate Army) died in 1892
1822 James Patton Anderson Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1872
1823 Brigadier General John D Imboden organized 1st Virginia Partisan Rangers
1832 Camille Armand Jules Marie de Polignac Major General (Confederate Army)
1852 Charles Taze Russell founded Jehovah's Witnesses
1866 Johann Strauss Austria, composer (Waltz King)
1884 Robert Flaherty Michigan, father of documentary film (Nanook of the North)
1903 Edgar Bergen Chicago IL, ventriloquist (Charlie McCarthy)
1904 George F Kennan Milwaukee WI, US ambassador (to Moscow)
1912 Machito "Frank Grillo" Florida, bandleader (created salsa music)
1926 John Schlesinger London England, film director (Midnight Cowboy, Darling)
1934 Austin "Ted" Taylor US gospel/R&B-singer (Be Ever Wonderful)
1935 Sonny Bono Detroit MI, singer (Sonny & Cher, Mayor-R-Palm Springs CA)
1942 Kim Chong-Il [Yura], President of North-Korea/savior of the Korean people/Dear Leader/Stud Muffin/Snappy Dresser (1994- )
1957 LeVar Burton Landstuhl Germany, (Roots, Star Trek Next Generation)
1959 John P McEnroe tennis player (US Open 1979-81, 84 Wimbledon 1981, 83, 84)
1998 Mr Jefferson Virginia, 1st cloned calf
2335 Geordi La Forge character on Star Trek Next Generation



Deaths which occurred on February 16:
0309 Pamphilus van Caesarea Palestinian scholar/martyr, beheaded
0923 Abu Dja'far Mohammed Djarir al-Tabari Islamic historian, dies at 83
1391 Johannes V Palaeologus Emperor of Byzantium (1341-91), dies
1779 William Boyce English organist/composer (Cathedral Music), dies
1857 Elisha Kent Kane Arctic explorer (Kane Basin), dies at 37
1967 Smiley Burnette cowboy (Charlie-Petticoat Junction), dies at 55
1979 Nematullah Nassiri, Iranian general, head of Savak, was executed.
1986 Howard Da Silva Cleveland OH, actor (Ben Franklin-1776), dies at 76
1996 Brownie McGhee blues guitarist, dies at 81
1996 Edmund G "Pat" Brown politician, dies at 90
2001 Dr. William H. Masters (b.1915), died at age 85 in Tucson, Ariz. (Masters and Johnson)
2002 John W. Gardner (89), founder Common Cause, died


Reported: MISSING in ACTION

1968 VOLLMER VALENTINE B.---CLINTONVILLE WI
[08/74 REMAINS RECOVERED]
1969 MOORE JERRY L.---CLEVELAND NC.
1969 WOGAN WILLIAM M.---GLEN OAKS NY.
1971 HOSKINS CHARLES L.---SHAWNEE MISSION KS.
1971 PATTILLO RALPH N.---HARTSELLE AL.
1972 GALATI RALPH W.---CHESTER PA.
[03/28/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE IN 98]
1972 LEE ALBERT EUGENE---GALLIPOLIS OH.
1972 SCHWERTFEGER WILLIAM R.---ENID OK
[03/28/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE AND WELL 98]

POW / MIA Data & Bios supplied by
the P.O.W. NETWORK. Skidmore, MO. USA.


On this day...
0374 9th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
0600 Pope Gregory the Great decrees saying "God bless You" is the correct response to a sneeze
1349 Jews are expelled from Burgsdorf Switzerland
1559 Pope Paul IV calls for deposition of sovereigns supporting heresy
1659 1st known check (£400) (on display at Westminster Abbey)
1742 Earl of Wilmington becomes British premier
1751 Thomas Gray's poem "Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard" was 1st published
1771 Messier presents his original list of 45 M-objects to French Academy
1804 Lieutenant Stephen Decatur raids Tripoli Harbor & burns Navy frigate "Philadelphia" after pirates seized it
1838 Kentucky passes law permitting women to attend school under conditions
1840 American Charles Wilkes discovers Shackleton Ice Shelf, Antarctica
1857 Gallaudet College (National Deaf Mute college) forms (Washington DC)
1862 Ft Donelson captured by General Grant (1,400 confederates surrender) Nathan Bedford Forrest escaped
1864 Battle of Mobile, AL - operations by Union Army
1868 Benevolent & Protective Order of the Elks founded in New York
1878 Silver dollar became US legal tender
1880 American Society of Mechanical Engineers founded, New York NY
1883 "Ladies Home Journal" begins publication
1903 -59º F, Pokegama Dam MN (state record)
1905 1st US Esperanto club organizes in Boston
1909 1st subway car with side doors goes into service (New York NY)
1909 Serbia mobilizes against Austria-Hungary
1917 1st synagogue in 425 years opens in Madrid
1927 US restores diplomatic relations with Turkey
1932 1st patent issued for a tree, to James Markham for a peach tree
1933 Catholic newspaper Germania warns against Nazis/communists
1937 DuPont Corp patents nylon, developed by employee Wallace H Carothers
1943 -32º F, Falls Village CT (state record)
1943 Sign on Munich facade: "Out with Hitler! Long live freedom!" was posted by the "White Rose" student group. They were caught on 2/18 and beheaded on 2/22.
1943 Red army conquers Kharkov
1945 US forces land on Corregidor, complete conquest on March 3
1945 Venezuela declares war on Nazi-Germany(and that's why Germamy lost)
1946 1st commercially designed helicopter tested, Bridgeport CT
1950 Writers fail to elect anyone to Baseball's Hall of Fame
1951 NYC passes bill prohibiting racism in city-assisted housing
1956 Britain abolishes the death penalty
1959 Fidel Castro named himself Cuba's premier after overthrowing Batista
1960 US nuclear submarine USS Triton set off on underwater round-world trip
1961 1st all-solid-propellant rocket put in orbit, Wallops Island VA
1961 China uses it's 1st nuclear reactor
1963 1st round-trip swim of Strait of Messina, Italy (Mary Revell of US)
1963 Beatles top British rock charts with "Please, Please Me"
1968 Country's 1st 911 phone system went into service in Haleyville AL
1968 Elvis Presley receives gold record for "How Great Thou Art"
1970 Joe Frazier KOs Jimmy Ellis in 5 for undisputed heavyweight boxing crown

1978 1st Computer Bulletin Board System (Ward & Randy's CBBS, Chicago)

1980 Continuous traffic jam extends 176 km north of Lyons, France
1984 Bill Johnson becomes 1st American to win Olympics downhill skiing gold
1985 Livingston Bramble defeats Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini to win WBA champion
1986 Mário Soares (Socialist) elected Portugal's 1st civilian president
1987 John Demjanjuk, accused of being "Ivan the Terrible" trial begins
1988 1st documented combat action by US military advisors in El Salvador
1992 Israeli helicopters attacked a convoy in Sidon, Lebanon, killing Sheik Abbas Musawi, leader of the pro-Iranian group Hezbollah
1997 At age 25, Jeff Gordon is youngest winner in Daytona 500 history
1999 Turkish commandos captured Abdullah Ocalan in Kenya (Kurdish terrorist)
2004 India and Pakistan began historic meetings aimed at preparing for a sustained peace dialogue on Kashmir and other disputes.


Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"

Lithuania : Independence Day (1918)
US : Love and Laughter Keeps Us from Getting Dizzy Week (Day 4)
US : Week of Kindness (Day 4)
Do A Grouch A Favor Day


Religious Observances
Christian : Feast of St Elias
Christian : Feast of St Juliana of Nicomedia
Roman Catholic : Commemoration of St Gregory X, pope (1271-76)


Religious History
1741 English revivalist George Whitefield advised in a letter: 'Use the world, but let it be as though you used it not.'
1801 In Baltimore, the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Zion Church officially separated from its parent, the Methodist Episcopal Church. The denomination later became part of the AME Church, reconstituted in 1816 under Richard Allen. It held its first national conference in 1821.
1865 English clergyman Sabine Baring-Gould, 31, first published the hymn, "Now the Day is Over." It was based on the text of Prov 3:24: 'When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid...and thy sleep shall be sweet.'
1911 William P. Merrill, 44, first published his hymn, "Rise Up, O Men of God," in the Presbyterian periodical, "The Continent."
1916 Under the leadership of Henrietta Szold, 52, the Hadassah Study Circle at New York's Temple Emanuel reconstituted itself. Szold afterward made this sisterhood of U.S. Jewish women a nationwide Zionist organization. Szold herself headed the group until 1926.

Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.


Thought for the day :
"Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it's apt to give a person wind and self-righteousness."


26 posted on 02/16/2005 6:53:16 AM PST by Valin (DARE to be average!)
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To: SAMWolf; snippy_about_it
Morning, folks.

Dad is resting at home now after several days in the hospital. It'll take a few days for him to get back at 100%

Our thoughts and prayers are with Tony Snow in his ongoing health situation.Snow for those who don't know is a Fox News paersonality. His radio show recently debuted in Oklahoma City.

27 posted on 02/16/2005 7:07:00 AM PST by E.G.C.
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To: SZonian

One reason there isn't much on record is due to the fact that those times were so disorganised and there were few newspapers, none of which were allowed to be sympathetic to the southern cause. The newspaper in Lexington was shut down by Federal order for having those sort of leanings. Much of what is known has come down by word of mouth or by way of letters or notations in family bibles.

Anderson wasn't the only 'devil from Hell' some of the men who road with him and others were equally evil. The man who took over Anderson's men after his death was a fiend named 'Little Arch' Clements. His calling card was usually done with a bowie knife and he would leave a note pinned to his victim stating "You come to hunt bushwackers and you found them and I skelpt you." Archie Clement was not the only barbaric Bushwhacker. Dave Pool chose to enumerate fallen enemies by jumping from one body to another. "If they are dead, I can't hurt them, 'he asserted. "I cannot count 'em good without stepping on 'em."


28 posted on 02/16/2005 7:13:38 AM PST by Lee Heggy ("In Missouri we don't call them "Guerrillas")
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To: Lee Heggy

Thanks for the info. It doesn't really surprise me that there is little published information, because who wants all the dirty secrets and shameful incidents published during war? Especially considering I view these as wars within wars.

Cheers!


29 posted on 02/16/2005 7:23:51 AM PST by SZonian (Tagline???? I don't need no stinkin' tagline!)
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To: SAMWolf
You better be getting ready to meet with the Chamber.

Ugh. I am. Why did I think that having our own business might mean not having to be up so early? Out the door in 5 minutes. ;-)

30 posted on 02/16/2005 7:25:57 AM PST by snippy_about_it (Fall in --> The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul.)
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To: SZonian

"wars within wars"

That's so true. Especially in regard to the Missouri/Kansas horror. We had 'civil war' five years before Fort Sumpter and for at least another eight afterwards. Old wounds that never healed and hatreds that were passed on from one generation to the next. When I was a kid calling someone a 'Jayhawker' was as bad as any four letter word and usually led to a fight.


31 posted on 02/16/2005 7:45:59 AM PST by Lee Heggy ("In Missouri we don't call them "Guerrillas")
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To: snippy_about_it; SAMWolf; All

Good morning everyone.

32 posted on 02/16/2005 7:46:37 AM PST by Soaring Feather
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To: SAMWolf
William "Bloody Bill" Anderson

It's amazing who CW era photos make everybody look like an ax murderer.

33 posted on 02/16/2005 7:52:53 AM PST by Professional Engineer (Ladies, don't dream it, be the target of FReeper Foxhole attention. Join the SpankenTruppen today.)
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To: snippy_about_it; bentfeather; Samwise; msdrby
Good morning ladies. Flag-o-Gram.


34 posted on 02/16/2005 7:54:54 AM PST by Professional Engineer (Ladies, don't dream it, be the target of FReeper Foxhole attention. Join the SpankenTruppen today.)
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To: snippy_about_it
one man's massacre is another man's GRAND VICTORY!

my ancestor, PVT William James "Little Thunder" Freeman, late of the 4th MO Partisan Rangers, fought BRAVELY at Centralia!

had we fought the whole war as partisans, the southland would be FREE! (the few barefooted,hungry but BRAVE "lads in Gray" had NO CHANCE, longterm, against the damnyankee war machine in a long, conventional war. the only thing the CSA had in excess was BRAVERY & at the bitter end that was NOT enough.)

free dixie,sw

35 posted on 02/16/2005 8:26:08 AM PST by stand watie (being a damnyankee is no better than being a racist. it is a LEARNED prejudice against dixie.)
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To: SAMWolf
Thank you for posting this. I have been told that my Great-great-grandfather John H. Anderson was killed by Bloody Bill Anderson in the Danville, Missouri Raid. Many people,men,women and children were killed and the town was burned.

In my family a story has been handed down, that the James family were friends with my dad's side of the family. Jesse James paid for medical school for my great-grand-father. Some things in life are so strange.

36 posted on 02/16/2005 8:29:10 AM PST by sam I am
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To: Lee Heggy
what the damnedyankees didn't like about CPT Anderson was that his methods were SUCESSFUL!

AND his methods were NOT half as BAD as those of the filthy jayhawkers, redlegs & "kansas volunteer cavalry".

the damnyankee "scum from across the border" preyed on BOTH SIDES with gleeful, bloody abandon. theirs was "war for fun & profit". nothing more, nothing less.

free dixie,sw

37 posted on 02/16/2005 8:48:00 AM PST by stand watie (being a damnyankee is no better than being a racist. it is a LEARNED prejudice against dixie.)
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To: SAMWolf

Hi Sam.


38 posted on 02/16/2005 8:48:12 AM PST by Aeronaut (You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky. -- Amelia Earhart)
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To: SAMWolf
GM, Sam!

free dixie,sw

39 posted on 02/16/2005 8:53:12 AM PST by stand watie (being a damnyankee is no better than being a racist. it is a LEARNED prejudice against dixie.)
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To: SZonian
there's LOTS of published information on the Partisan war in MO/KS/NE/IT. lots.

see INSIDE WAR by Professor Michael Fellman, published by Oxford University press.

also if, for some reason, you want to read damnyankee anti-dixie propaganda (and that's ALL it is), check out THE DEVIL KNOWS HOW TO RIDE by Edward E Leslie.

free dixie,sw

40 posted on 02/16/2005 8:59:50 AM PST by stand watie (being a damnyankee is no better than being a racist. it is a LEARNED prejudice against dixie.)
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