Tommy Tainant
Diamond Member
The Battle
On September 27,1864 Captain William "Bloody Bill" Anderson and about eighty men rode into Centralia, Missouri in search of the whereabouts of Federal troops. The search soon turned to looting...
www.centraliabattlefield.com
Well they held up the train and killed 23 unarmed soldiers who were on their way home. Is that an act of war or an act of terrorism ? They mutilated the bodies after killing them as well.
I suspect that if the south had won it would have been the former. But thankfully they didnt and we can now see the massacre for what it was.
Its complicated though, isnt it ?
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