Centralia, Missouri: The Battle of Centralia
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Centralia, Missouri: The Battle of Centralia

In which I explain how later that same day, when Federal troops went after Bloody Bill and his men, 122 of 125 were slaughtered three miles outside of town in the Battle of Centralia, the highest percentage of men killed in a single engagement of the Civil War; I also share photos from the battlefield

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Centralia, Missouri - Home of the Traughbers and Site of the Centralia Massacre
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Centralia, Missouri - Home of the Traughbers and Site of the Centralia Massacre

In which I describe my visits with both Mike and my parents to Centralia, where my great grandfather, William Francis Traughber, grew up and attended high school, and where 22 Union soldiers and one civilian were killed by William “Bloody Bill” Anderson and his guerrillas on September 27, 1864, in what became known as the Centralia Massacre (and to which, it turns out, I have several family connections - on BOTH sides of the war)

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