Two Infamous Guerrillas

[bdtex]

I am glad I not the only insane American Civil War buff which hunts for obscure sites, Pat.

Great stuff.....

You most definitely are not the only one.

 

[Buckeye Bill]

You most definitely are not the only one.

Praise, Jesus!!!!

 

[Lusty Murfax]

The small town of Orrick is still very much in existence in Ray County. Been there dozens of times. It is situated on the Missouri River bottoms, just east of Jackass Bend and north of Sibley. Albany or New Albany must have once been a small community nearby. It doesn't show up on a map, but there is an Albany road leading northward up into the hills. Orrick's more recent claim to fame is as the boyhood home of R. D. Offutt, the potato king. His Grandson plays O-line for the Denver Broncos. Nice kid.

Ray County, like other Missouri River Counties still has a fair representation of farm families whose surnames show up in Missouri CW/WBTS histories.

 

[LtRusell]

Doesn't seem odd a female cousin would come and take care of and clean the body.....when female relatives of guerrillas were being imprisoned and banished on less of a display of loyalty?.................seems a bit odd to me considering what had happened to his sisters.......

I'm not going to try to explain this one. Maybe though it was a far enough relation where things would have become very "Stalinist" (Ewing-ist?), and cause more retribution, had they locked up all females closes to partisans. Or maybe there was a little class still left. I dunno though. A whole lot of supposition.

 

[diane]

Doesn't seem odd a female cousin would come and take care of and clean the body.....when female relatives of guerrillas were being imprisoned and banished on less of a display of loyalty?.................seems a bit odd to me considering what had happened to his sisters.......

Maybe, all things considered, but it could have been so depending. I'd thought they just threw his body somewhere and kicked some dirt over it, so it's a curious thing. This cousin must have done the work, though, judging by the picture. Well, unless it was taken before they started messing around...

Did Cole Younger actually do a funeral for Anderson many, many years later? Seems I heard that somewhere.

 

[Booner]

Borderruffian wrote about the death of BB Anderson (and many other bushwhacker's) back in 2011.

A link to his post of the eye witness account of Anderson Death---
https://civilwartalk.com/threads/ey...death-of-capt-w-t-bloody-bill-anderson.21596/

 

[Booner]

Doesn't seem odd a female cousin would come and take care of and clean the body.....when female relatives of guerrillas were being imprisoned and banished on less of a display of loyalty?.................seems a bit odd to me considering what had happened to his sisters.......

well, I just spent about 3 hours trying to find where I read about Bill's female cousin (or maybe it was just a southern lady) who cleaned his body--no luck, so maybe I shouldn't have said anything about it if I can't find my source. It appears they took a few pictures of him before they dragged his body around town, so maybe that's why he looked as good as he did.
But I noticed in the link that Borderruffian posted years ago about the eye witness account of the fight in which Bill was killed, that it was mentioned that Bill was wearing the guerrilla shirt when he was killed.

And yes, Diane, Cole Younger, in 1908 either owned or managed a carnival and was in Richmond MO where he learned that Bill had been buried, "without benefit of clergy." So he had the body reburied by a Rev. J. E. Dunn, with his carnival musicians providing the music.

 

[mofederal]

I read some articles this morning dealing with the cousin of Bill. She heard about his death, lived nearby. She wanted to clean the blood from his face and comb his hair. She said Cox wouldn't let her clean him up, but Cox said he had a bullet hole in his forehead. I found this account somewhere online. I lost it. I will keep looking for it again.

This is from Genealogy.com site. Under U.S. Outlaws. James S. Hackley remembered seeing Anderson's body after he was killed. His mother was a cousin of Anderson. "We drove to Richmond. My mother's brother Tom Bayless kept a hardware store there. Mr. Bayless came out to greet my mother when a boy came running up and said Bill Anderson had been killed and his body was at Kice's gallery. My mother saw blood on his face his face and clotted hair. She pleaded that the picture not be taken until she had washed his face and cleaned his hair." This is taken from Hale's book They Called Him Bloody Bill. I no longer have this book.

 

[mofederal]

Another view of the scene of the Orrick/Albany Battlefield area.

 

[diane]

I read some articles this morning dealing with the cousin of Bill. She heard about his death, lived nearby. She wanted to clean the blood from his face and comb his hair. She said Cox wouldn't let her clean him up, but Cox said he had a bullet hole in his forehead. I found this account somewhere online. I lost it. I will keep looking for it again.

This is from Genealogy.com site. Under U.S. Outlaws. James S. Hackley remembered seeing Anderson's body after he was killed. His mother was a cousin of Anderson. "We drove to Richmond. My mother's brother Tom Bayless kept a hardware store there. Mr. Bayless came out to greet my mother when a boy came running up and said Bill Anderson had been killed and his body was at Kice's gallery. My mother saw blood on his face his face and clotted hair. She pleaded that the picture not be taken until she had washed his face and cleaned his hair." This is taken from Hale's book They Called Him Bloody Bill. I no longer have this book.

Ah, that makes total sense. Like just about everybody then, he probably couldn't throw a rock in any direction without hitting a relation.

 

[Booner]

I read some articles this morning dealing with the cousin of Bill. She heard about his death, lived nearby. She wanted to clean the blood from his face and comb his hair. She said Cox wouldn't let her clean him up, but Cox said he had a bullet hole in his forehead. I found this account somewhere online. I lost it. I will keep looking for it again.

This is from Genealogy.com site. Under U.S. Outlaws. James S. Hackley remembered seeing Anderson's body after he was killed. His mother was a cousin of Anderson. "We drove to Richmond. My mother's brother Tom Bayless kept a hardware store there. Mr. Bayless came out to greet my mother when a boy came running up and said Bill Anderson had been killed and his body was at Kice's gallery. My mother saw blood on his face his face and clotted hair. She pleaded that the picture not be taken until she had washed his face and cleaned his hair." This is taken from Hale's book They Called Him Bloody Bill. I no longer have this book.

"I get by with a little help from my friends."
Thanks MoFed. It was driving me crazy, not being able to find the source.

 

[diane]

Borderruffian wrote about the death of BB Anderson (and many other bushwhacker's) back in 2011.

A link to his post of the eye witness account of Anderson Death---
https://civilwartalk.com/threads/ey...death-of-capt-w-t-bloody-bill-anderson.21596/

Thanks for posting that, Booner! Borderruffian puts up some good stuff. That answers just about all of it!

 

[Booner]

Thanks for posting that, Booner! Borderruffian puts up some good stuff. That answers just about all of it!

Yes he did, and yes it does.

 

[archieclement]

larkin had his finger cut off to get a ring too, must have been a common yankee practice

 

[Boonslick]

I read some articles this morning dealing with the cousin of Bill. She heard about his death, lived nearby. She wanted to clean the blood from his face and comb his hair. She said Cox wouldn't let her clean him up, but Cox said he had a bullet hole in his forehead. I found this account somewhere online. I lost it. I will keep looking for it again.

This is from Genealogy.com site. Under U.S. Outlaws. James S. Hackley remembered seeing Anderson's body after he was killed. His mother was a cousin of Anderson. "We drove to Richmond. My mother's brother Tom Bayless kept a hardware store there. Mr. Bayless came out to greet my mother when a boy came running up and said Bill Anderson had been killed and his body was at Kice's gallery. My mother saw blood on his face his face and clotted hair. She pleaded that the picture not be taken until she had washed his face and cleaned his hair." This is taken from Hale's book They Called Him Bloody Bill. I no longer have this book.

I have Donald Hale's, "They Called Him Bloody Bill" in my collection.
Here is the direct reference on page 79.

 

[Boonslick]

Also from Hale's book, pg. 81 comes there appears an interesting account of Bill's possessions.
(This is cited from the O.R.- Series 1. Vol XLI. Part 4 . Page 354).

 

[LtRusell]

larkin had his finger cut off to get a ring too, must have been a common yankee practice

Wait. Federal troops taking body parts a trophies? I thought they were above that. I only guerrillas did that.

 

[Buckeye Bill]

Thank you, Missouri Fellas!

I love reading your Missouri/Kansas American Civil War threads.

A ton of useful information on a topic about the war which does not receive much notoriety.

Bloodless Bill

 

[mofederal]

No problem, it is a subject I love. There are a lot of questions and mysteries yet to answer about the war in Missouri.

 

[mofederal]

http://daviesscountyhistoricalsociety.com/2004/03/17/samuel-cox-a-daviess-county-hero/

http://daviesscountyhistoricalsociety.com/2016/05/24/major-samuel-p-cox-daviess-county-legend/

http://daviesscountyhistoricalsocie...orton-awarded-a-bloody-bill-andersons-pistol/

These links contain facts about the disposition of Bloody Bill's pistols and some of his other items he carried when he was killed.