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Episode: Bloody Bill Anderson: The Civil War Guerrilla Who Created Jesse James
Description: Bloody Bill Anderson: The Civil War Guerrilla Who Created Jesse JamesWilliam T. Anderson, known as "Bloody Bill," was a Confederate guerrilla fighter who terrorized Missouri and Kansas during the Civil War, becoming one of the most brutal figures in American history. The Centralia Massacre of September 1864 saw Anderson and his men execute 22 unarmed Union soldiers and kill 123 more in the subsequent battle, marking one of the highest casualty rates of the entire war. His guerrilla band included a 16-year-old Jesse James, who witnessed Anderson's systematic violence firsthand.This is the story of how a frontier...