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Post by code on Dec 2, 2021 1:46:58 GMT
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Post by Sigurdur on Dec 3, 2021 18:55:08 GMT
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Post by Sigurdur on Dec 3, 2021 19:51:38 GMT
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Post by ratty on Dec 4, 2021 21:45:58 GMT
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Post by missouriboy on Dec 4, 2021 22:03:05 GMT
I remember that and the botanicl gardens.
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Post by ratty on Dec 5, 2021 0:37:44 GMT
I remember that and the botanicl gardens. Wouldn't be the same dog .....  |
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Post by missouriboy on Dec 5, 2021 1:52:34 GMT
I remember that and the botanicl gardens. Wouldn't be the same dog ..... His/her offspring then.   |
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Post by missouriboy on Dec 5, 2021 5:09:50 GMT
Jesse James is a Legend in these parts. One part desperado, one part Robin Hood. Depends on who you talk to. A teenager caught up in the partisan warfare of Bloody Kansas and the no-quarter fighting of the Missouri Civil War. This is the World that Jesse and his older brother Frank grew up in. He was born in 1847 and assasinated in 1882. Bob Ford, who killed Jesse, supposedly received a bounty, and was himself killed 10 years later. Lost photo of Jesse James, assassin Robert Ford is found, authenticatedwww.chron.com/national/article/Lost-photo-of-Jesse-James-assassin-Robert-Ford-6540749.php  Jesse began riding with the partisan when he was 15 or 16. At the Battle of Centralia, he was 17, and had already been wounded once or twice. In 1864, the Confederates, faced with a rapidly deteriorating position, launched an invasion of northern Missouri. It was led by General Sterling Price and his Missouri State Guard. The object was to influence the 1864 presidential election by capturing St. Louis and the state capitol at Jefferson City. As part of his strategy, Price encouraged guerrilla warfare, especially the disruption of the railroads. "Bloody Bill" Anderson and his guerrilla company were among those who took part.[1]
On September 23, 1864, Anderson engaged in a skirmish in Boone County, Missouri, seven miles east of Rocheport. His men managed to kill eleven Federal soldiers and three black civilian teamsters. The Federals responded the next day by shooting six of Anderson's men who were captured at a home in Rocheport.
Also on September 24, Anderson attacked the pro-Union town of Fayette, but the attack was a failure. Thirteen of Anderson's men were killed and more than 30 were wounded. Only one Union soldier was killed, with two wounded.[2] Wikipedia
At 9:00 a.m. on September 27, Anderson, with about 80 guerrillas, some dressed in stolen Union army uniforms, moved into Centralia to cut the North Missouri Railroad.[3] The guerrillas looted the town and reportedly drank whiskey from stolen boots. Anderson blocked the rail line, a fact that the engineer of an approaching train failed to realize until too late, as the men he saw were wearing blue uniforms. The guerrillas swarmed the train and divided the 125 passengers between civilians and soldiers. A total of 24 Union soldiers were aboard, all on leave after the Battle of Atlanta and heading to their homes in northwest Missouri or southwest Iowa.
The Union soldiers were ordered at gunpoint to strip off their uniforms. When Anderson called for an officer, Sergeant Thomas Goodman stepped forward, expecting to be shot so that the rest would be spared. Instead, Anderson's men ignored Goodman and began shooting the others. The bodies were then mutilated and scalped. The guerrillas then set fire to the train and sent it running down the tracks toward Sturgeon, Missouri. They torched the depot and rode away from the town.[4] Sergeant Goodman was taken prisoner on Anderson's orders; it was planned that he would be later exchanged for one of Anderson's men held prisoner by Federal forces. Goodman spent ten days in the captivity of the guerrillas before escaping at night as they prepared to cross the Missouri River near Rocheport.[5]
Battle of Centralia
At about 3:00 p.m., Union major Andrew Vern Emen Johnston, a former schoolteacher without much military experience, led 146 men of the newly formed 39th Missouri Infantry Regiment (Mounted) and rode into Centralia.[6][7] The townspeople warned Johnston that Anderson had at least 80 well-armed men, but Johnston led his men in pursuit. The Union soldiers soon encountered the guerrillas, and Johnston decided to fight them on foot. He ordered his men to dismount and form a line of battle.[8]
Johnston then reportedly called out a challenge. Anderson's men replied by making a mounted charge. Armed with muzzle-loading Enfield rifles, the Federal recruits were no match for the guerrillas with their revolvers. Johnston's first volley killed several guerrillas, but then his men were overrun. Most were shot down as they attempted to flee. According to Frank James, his younger brother Jesse fired the shot that killed Major Johnston. Of the 147 Union soldiers, 123 were killed during the battle with only one man wounded.[9] Confederate forces lost three men and ten were wounded.[10][5][11]Author's Note: There were exactly 3 partisans who were killed outright or died of their wounds. Green troops shooting downhill overshot the whole charge and they didn't get a chance to reload. Wiki is being generous. There were NO prisoners and NO wounded on the Federal side. The 24 that got away retrieved the fastest horses, headed north and didn't stop for a long time. Some of those not slaughtered on the field, galluped back to Centralia and took off west 5 miles down the tracks for the Union blockhouse at Sturgeon. None of them made it. Others were hunted down house to house. Major Johnston should have known better. He began the War as an officer with the Missouri State Guard and then switched sides. He was familiar with partisan tactics. Aftermath
On September 28, 1864, in a letter to Union Gen. William Rosecrans, Union Brig.-Gen. Clinton B. Fisk suggested depopulation and devastation in retribution for the massacre:
I had the honor to write you fully under yesterday's date, since which time my telegrams have advised you of the disasters at Centralia. The capture of the railway train, the inhuman slaughter of the defenseless soldiers thereon, the robbery of the passengers, the burning of the moving train, and the indignities visited upon helpless women must be regarded as one of the chief barbarisms of the war. ... We have in these counties not only the resident rebels, but in addition a large proportion of those who, by Gen. Ewing's order, were last year expelled from Johnson, Jackson, and other border counties. Depopulation and devastation are extreme measures, but if this infernal warfare continues it will be humane and economic of human life to adopt and vigorously enforce such measures wherever the bushwhackers have more friends than the government.[12]These were the same Union tactics that were employed the previous year in the "Burnt District" after Quantrill's raid on Lawrence, KS. Three whole Missouri counties were emptied and burnt to the ground. |
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Post by ratty on Dec 5, 2021 12:29:45 GMT
Wouldn't be the same dog ..... His/her offspring then. In a similar vein?  |
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Post by missouriboy on Dec 5, 2021 15:45:14 GMT
Gauling perhaps?
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Post by missouriboy on Dec 5, 2021 23:22:02 GMT
Good to be the President of El Salvador? Maybe ...
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Post by walnut on Dec 6, 2021 0:22:39 GMT
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Post by missouriboy on Dec 6, 2021 2:23:13 GMT
Now Imagine that was Brandon.  |
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Post by code on Dec 7, 2021 6:23:26 GMT
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Post by pbfoot on Dec 7, 2021 13:18:45 GMT
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