October 15, 1864 – Major General Sterling Price’s Confederates captured several towns while moving through Missouri, but Federal pursuers were closing in on them fast.
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Bloody Bill’s Centralia Raid
September 27, 1864 – Pro-Confederate guerrillas ravaged a Missouri town and murdered nearly 150 Federal soldiers. On the night of September 26, a band of
The Border District: Ewing Incites Guerrillas
August 14, 1863 – Brigadier General Thomas Ewing incurred the wrath of Confederate raiders operating along the Missouri-Kansas border by targeting their relatives, including women and