Guerilla leader ‘Bloody Bill’ Anderson killed in Union ambush

Tuesday, October 26 The 299th day of the year 66 days left Today in history On October 26, 1864, the notorious Confederate guerrilla leader William “Bloody Bill” Anderson is killed in Missouri in a Union ambush. Born in the late 1830s, Anderson grew up in Missouri and moved to Kansas in the late 1850s. Arriving to settle on his father’...

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