For the collapse of the Kansas City military prison, which resulted in the death of one of Anderson’s sisters and the crippling of another, the best account is Charles F. Harris’s article, “Catalyst of Terror: The Collapse of the Women’s Prison in Kansas City,” Missouri Historical Review 89 (April 1995): 290–306. Much otherwise unobtainable information was found in Donald R. Hale’s They Called Him Bloody Bill: The Missouri Badman Who Taught Jesse James Outlawry (Clinton, Missouri: The Printery, 1975) and William A. Settle Jr.’s Jesse James Was His Name (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1966), the first and still the only scholarly study of its subject. For the relationship between Quantrill and Anderson, the Lawrence and Baxter Springs massacres, and Confederate military operations in Missouri in the fall of 1864, the authors relied on, for obvious reasons, Albert Castel’s William Clarke Quantrill: His Life and Times (New York: Frederick Fell, 1962; hardbound reprint, The General’s Books, 1992, 1995), Castel’s General Sterling Price and the Civil War in the West (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1968; paperback reprint, 1992), and Thomas Goodrich’s Bloody Dawn: The Story of the Lawrence Massacre (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1991) and his Black Flag: Guerrilla Warfare on the Western Border, 1861–1865 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995).
Index
(Page numbers in italics indicate illustrations)
A Thrilling Record (Houston), 143
Agnes City, Kansas, July 3, 1863 events in, 11–18
Albany, Missouri
October 26, 1864 events in, 123–24
October 27, 1864 events in, 125–27
Alexander Mitchell and Company Bank, Lexington, Missouri, robbery of, 137
Allen (Moberly), Missouri, 47
Anderson, Bush, 35, 36
Anderson, Charles, 12
Anderson, Ellis, 11, 12
Anderson, Janie, 11, 26, 27
Anderson, Jim, 11, 14, 14, 22–23, 46, 48–49, 131, 133, 134, 136–37
Baker killing, 16–18
death of, 139–40
Lexington and Warrensburg operations, 19
Anderson, Josephine, 11, 26
death of, 27
Anderson, Martha, 11, 12
Anderson, Mary Ellen, 11, 15, 26, 27
Anderson, William, Sr., 11–12
death of, 16
Anderson, William T. “Bloody Bill,” 10, 12–13, 14, 22–23, 38, 39, 97
Baker killing, 16–18
Baxter Springs massacre, 32–33
becoming guerrilla “captain,” 24
being known as “Bloody Bill,” 96
Centralia massacres, 73–74, 79–86
death of, 125–27
emergence of, 27
escape from Federals, 100–3
Glen Eden raid, 119–22
Goodman’s description of, 87
grave of, 143–44, 144
jayhawking, 13
Johnston column ambush, 89–92, 95
Lawrence massacre, 29
letter to newspaper editors, 42–44
Lexington and Warrensburg operations, 19
marriage of, 36
motives of, 15
photographs of, after death, 127–30, 128, 129
pony business, 13
Price orders, 114–15
rank of, 34
at Rocheport, 57–58
scalping as trademark of, 41
separating from Price, 123–24
silken cord of, 127
wounding of, 55
at Young’s Creek, 69
Anderson homestead, 12
Baker, Arthur Inghram, 13–16
death of, 16–17
bank robberies, 136–42
Barnum, Bill, 81
Baum, Solomon, 44
Baxter Springs, Kansas, massacre, 31–33
Benton, Tom, 1, 4
Berry, Ike, 119
Big Shanty, Georgia, 64
Bingham, George Caleb, 26, 27
“Bleeding Kansas” troubles, 12
Bluff Creek, Kentucky, 12
Blunt, James G., 32
Boone County, Missouri, September 28 to October 8, 1864 events in, 99–109
Boonville, Missouri, October 11, 1864 events in, 111–15
Border Ruffians, 7
Bradford, J. H., 20–21
Bridger, Jim, 124
Brown, Egbert, 41, 44
Brownlee, Richard S., viii
Burns, Dick, 138
Burris, Milton, 42
bushwhackers, viii, 1–2, 3, 9–10
Centralia massacres, 79–86
conference, 60–61
escape from Federals, 100–3
Fayette defeat, 60–61
fighting amongst, 33–36
military order and discipline of, 105–6
outfits of, 10–11
rendezvous of, 106
scalping as trademark of, 41
turning into bandits, 136–42
weapons of, 11
Young’s Creek camp, 69–70, 87–88, 97–98
Carroll County, Missouri, 124
“the Gourd” area of, 49–50
massacre, 44–45
Carson, Kit, 124
Centralia, Missouri, 36, 70
September 27, 1864 events in, 88–89, 96–97
September 27, 1864 events southeast of, 89–92, 94–96
massacres, 73–74, 79–86
raid on, 93–94
Chariton County, Missouri, 49
Chiles, Jim Crow, 36
Clark, James, 76–78, 79–80, 84, 85–86, 96
Clark, John B., Jr., 117
Clay County Savings Bank, Liberty, Missouri, robbery of, 136
Clements, Archie, 24, 25, 47, 93, 96, 124, 131, 133–35, 136
Centralia massacres, 79–86
death of, 137
scalping as trademark of, 41
wounding of, 55
Colt Navies, 11
Columbia, Missouri, raid on, 56
Comer, Josh, 69
Committee of Safety for Montgomery County, letter, 57
Confederate States of America, 8
collapse of, 133
“contributory tax,” 58
Council Grove, Kansas, 20–21
Council Grove Press, 13, 20
Cox, Samuel P. “Cob,” 124–27, 138
Craig, James, 124
Crittenden, Thomas T., 141
Cummins, Jim, 54
Curtis, Samuel Ryan, 115
Damon, George, 45–46
Danville, Missouri, 120
Daviess County Bank, Gallatin, Missouri, robbery of, 138–40
Davis, Berryman K., 134–35
Denny, Lieutenant Colonel, 69–70
Diamond Springs, Kansas, raid on, 21
District of the Frontier, 32
Dodge, Grenville, 134
Draper, Daniel, 2
Dunnica, W. E., 118
Eaton, S. S., 2
Edward, John N., 127
Ellington, Richard, 104
Emporia News, 15
Ewing, Thomas, Jr., 26, 31, 113
Fayette, Missouri
bushwhackers defeat at, 60–61
raid on, 1–5
Federal counterguerrilla campaign, 54–61, 132
Fifteenth Kansas Cavalry, 53
Fifty-first Missouri Militia, 124
First Iowa Cavalry, 53, 76
First Missouri Engineers, 64–67
Fisk, Clinton B., 52, 54, 67, 105, 124
extermination party, 54–61
Flannery, Ike, 136
Ford, Bob, 141
Ford, Charles, 141
Forrest, Nathan Bedford, 133
Fourth Missouri State Militia, 57–58
Fredericksburg, Missouri, raid on, 54
Freestaters, 12
George, B. James, Sr., viii
Glasgow, Missouri
battle at, 117
October 21, 1864 events in, 117–22
raid on, 118
Glasgow Road, September 24, 1864 events on, 7–11
Glen Eden, Glasgow, Missouri, 119
raid on, 118–22
Goodman, Mary, 116–17
Goodman, Thomas Morton, 64–67, 65, 68– 69, 75, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 115–16, 142–43
capture of, 85
escape of, 108–9
grave of, 142
observations of, 105–6
as prisoner, 87–88, 97–98, 100–9
Gordon, Si, 60
Johnston column ambush, 89–92
Grant, Ulysses S., 63
Gray Ghosts of the Confederacy: Guerrilla Warfare in the West (Brownlee), viii
Griffin, Lee, 15, 17
guerrillas. See bushwhackers
Hale, Donald R., vii
“half-and-halfs,” 64
Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad, 48, 115
Harding, Chester, 134
Hart, Charley. See Quantrill, William Clarke
Hawleyville, Iowa, October 14, 1864 events in, 116–17
Hilly, Jim, 66
Hite, Wood, 141
Holden-Kingsville raid, 133–34
Holtzclaw, Cliff, 60, 120
Houston, Harry A., 143
Howard County, Missouri, September 28 to October 8, 1864 events in, 99–109
Howard County Courthouse, Fayette, Missouri, 3
Hughes and Wasson Bank, Richmond, Missouri, robbery of, 137–38
Huntsville, Missouri, raids on, 45–46, 48, 56
Huntsville Randolph Citizen, 49
Jackson County, Missouri, 19
April to May, 1864 events in, 36–38
raids on, 23
James, Frank, 54, 55, 93, 133, 139, 140, 142
Centralia massacres, 79–86
wounding of, 56
James, Jesse, 54, 56, 133, 139, 139, 140
death of, 141
wounding of, 55–56
James-Younger gang, 140–42
Jaynes, Thomas, 93
Jefferson City, Missouri, 113
Jefferson City State Times, 58
Jennison, Charles “Doc,” 9, 53
Jewell, William, 136
Johnston, Ave, 70–73, 72, 76, 88–89
column, ambush of, 89–92, 92, 94–95
death of, 92
march, 90
scalping of, 95
Johnston, Joe, 133
Kansas
eastern, May to July 1863 events in, 23–24
map of, 8
see also individual counties; individual towns
Kansas City, Missouri, August 13, 1863 events in, 26–27
Kansas City Daily Journal of Commerce, 26
Kansas City Journal, 137
Holden-Kingsville raid editorial, 134
Kansas conflict, 7–8
Kansas jayhawkers, 9
Kansas “Red Legs,” 23
Kentucky, central, September 25, 1864 events in, 63–67
Kice, Robert B., 127–30
King, Kate, 37, 133
Kingsville, Missouri, massacre, 41, 133–34
Kirker, John, 50
Lafayette County, Missouri, raids on, 23–24
Lakenan, Missouri, raid on, 48
Lane, James H., 9, 15
Lawrence, Kansas, raid on, 27–29
Leavenworth Daily Bulletin, Anderson editorial, 95
Lee, Robert E., 133
Leonard, Reeves, battalion, 2
letter to editors, Anderson’s, 42–44
Lewis, Benjamin, 117–22, 118
death of, 122
Lewis, Eleanor, 118
Lexington, Missouri, 42
Lexington Weekly Union
on Anderson, 23
bushwhackers editorial, 19–20
Liberty Tribune, 132
Liddil, Dick, 141
Lincoln, Abraham, 8, 113
Little, Jim, 138
Little, Tom, 138
Litton, Hiram, 104
Long, Peyton, 133
Centralia massacres, 79–86
Lovejoy, Julia, 36
Lyons, Cyrus, 45
McClellan, George, 113
McCulloch, Henry, 33–36
McDowell, James L., 21
McDowell, William, 138
McFerran, James, 42, 44
McGee’s Addition, Kansas City, Missouri, 26
collapse of, 26–27
Macon County, Missouri, 48–49
maps
Johnston column ambush, 92
Johnston’s march, 90
Kansas, 8
Missouri, 8, 22
Matlock, Lucius, 52, 56–57
Maupin, John, 50
Mexico, Missouri, September 27, 1864 events in, 75–76
militiamen, 52–53
Missouri
maps of, 8, 22
northern, summer of 1864 events in, 41–61
prairie of, September 27, 1864 events in, 70–73
western, July 1862 to July 1864 events in, 19–20, 23–24, 38–39, 41–61
see also individual counties; individual towns
Missouri guerrillas. See bushwhackers
Missouri Statesman, bushwhackers editorial, 134
Missouri Unionists, 9, 72
Neosho Rapids, Kansas, raid on, 12
New York Tribune, 15
Ninth Missouri State Militia Cavalry, 1, 59
Leonard battalion, 2
North Missouri Railroad, 115, 120
attack on, 47
between Mexico and Young’s Creek, 76–78
Noted Guerrillas (Edward), 127
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, 24, 44
Ogden, William, 24
Order No. 11, 31, 135
The Outlaw Josey Wales (film), vii
Overall, Richard, 75–76, 77
Pace, Ed, 66
Paris, Missouri, September 26, 1864 events in, 67
partisans. See bushwhackers
“Paw Paws,” 53
Perche Hills, Missouri, 56
Peters, Valentine, 66, 69, 83
Pilot Knob, Missouri, 113
Platte County, Missouri, raid on, 51
Pleasonton, Alfred, 115
Police Gazette, 140
Poole, Dave, 31, 60, 90, 94, 103, 133, 134, 137
Johnston column ambush, 94–95
surrender of, 135
Poole, John, 137
Poole, William, 139
Price, Sterling, 9, 28, 34, 39, 60, 70, 97, 111–15, 112
Missouri campaign, 112–13, 123
recruiting Anderson, 114–15
Quantrill, William Clarke, vii, 19, 21, 34–35, 36–38, 60, 115, 118, 136
Baxter Springs massacre, 31–33
in Kentucky, 132–33
Lawrence massacre, 27–29
rank of, 34
Todd confrontation, 37
Rains, Captain, 125
Rains, James S., 125
Ratcliffe, John, 14
Republicans, 8
Reynolds, Thomas C., 37, 112, 114
Richmond, Missouri
October 27 to 28, 1864 events in, 124, 127–30
raid on, 138
Robinson, Charles, 13
Robinson, Jim, 69
Rocheport, Missouri, 47, 105
encounter at, 57–58
raid on, 56
Rollins, James Sidney, 74, 79, 84, 86
Rose, Cass, 66
Rosecrans, William S., 39, 44
Russellville, Missouri, raid on, 50–51
St. Charles, Missouri, September 27, 1864 events in, 68–69
St. Joseph, Missouri, October 13, 1864 events in, 115–16
St. Joseph Herald and Tribune, 116
on Anderson, 51
Anderson editorial, 52
on Federal counterguerrilla campaign, 132
St. Louis Democrat, on Anderson death, 131–32
St. Louis Republican, on Anderson, 100, 123
Santa Fe Trail, 12
May 1863 events on, 20–23<
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scalping, as bushwhackers trademark, 41
Second Colorado Cavalry, 37, 53
Todd encounter, 38–39
Segur, Annis, 15
Segur, George, 17–18
Segur, Ira, 16
Seventeenth Illinois Cavalry, 47, 53, 56
Sewell, Eli, 16
Sheets, John W., 138
Shelbina, Missouri, raid on, 47–48
Shelby, Jo, 42
Shepherd, George, 139
Shepherd, Ol’, 138
Sherman, William Tecumseh, 26, 63
silken cord, Anderson’s, 127
Smith, A. J., 115
Smith, Bush. See Anderson, Bush
Smith, Edmund Kirby, 133
Sneed, A. F., 88–89, 93
Sneed, Thomas, 79, 84
Stafford, J. E., 93
Strieby, Charles, 15, 16, 17, 115
Sturgeon, Missouri, September 27, 1864 events in, 96
tax collectors, Anderson’s, 58–59
Taylor, Fletch, 51, 139
Texas, northern, March 1864 events in, 33–36
Theiss, Adam, 89
They Called Him Bloody Bill (Hale), vii
Third Missouri Militia, ambush of, 59
Thirty-ninth Missouri Infantry, Companies A, G, and H, 67, 70–73
Thirty-third Missouri Militia, 124
Thrailkill, John, 60, 87, 97, 103, 133
Johnston column ambush, 89–92, 95
Todd, George, 10, 32, 33, 35, 36, 87, 97, 103, 123, 132
Baxter Springs massacre, 32
Fayette defeat, 60–61
Johnston column ambush, 89–92, 95
Quantrill confrontation, 37
rank of, 34
Second Colorado Cavalry encounter, 38–39
Todd, Thomas, 60, 95
Johnston column ambush, 89–92
Union District of North Missouri, 52
Vaughn, Jim, 26
Vogel, Adolph, 128
Wakenda River, 55
Wales, Josey, vii
Watts, Hamp, 58, 59
Waverly, Missouri, 41–42
Wellington, Missouri, 41
Westport, Missouri, raid on, 26
Williams, George, statement of, 57
Wyandotte County, Kansas, raid on, 24–26
Wyatt, Cave, 59, 82
Yager, Dick, 20–21
death of, 54
Younger, Bob, 140
Younger, Cole, 140
Younger, Jim, 140
Young’s Creek, Missouri
guerrilla camp, 87–88, 97–98
September 27, 1864 events in, 69–70
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