Pro-Confederate guerrilla Bloody Bill killed by Union soldiers 150 years ago today (Oct 26 1864)


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(Wednesday, October 26, 1864; during American Civil War)William T. Anderson, better known as Bloody Bill, one of the deadliest and most brutal pro-Confederate guerrilla leaders in the American Civil War, was killed today in Albany, Missouri, by a group of Union soldiers led by Lieutenant Colonel Samuel P. Cox.