Marker Albany Missouri
In memory of confederate Partisan Rangers
Gravesite, Richmond, Ray County Missouri
Pioneer Cemetery
So much has been written, cussed and dis-cussed about the life and times of William T. Anderson.
In Ray County, he’s history. Not to vilify or glorify….it’s history. But, this is one of many stories written of him and his death.
October 1864
THE RICHMOND MISSOURIAN, RICHMOND, MISSOURI
JUNE 6, 1938
(RAY COUNTY CHAPTERS)
Eye-Witness Describes the Battle of Albany and the Killing of Captain Bill Anderson
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The Diary of Lieutenant Thomas Hankins, late Banker of Rayville, Mo., Recast Correctly Into Conversational Style, Furnishes the Concisest Report of the Battle of “Old Albany,” one Mile North of Orrick in Southwest Ray County- A Series of Chapters Giving Exact Date of Important Local Civil War Fight- Chapter Five Ends Series with Additional Anderson Data from Other Sources.
(No. 428 of “Ray County Chapters,” in the Richmond Missourian of June 6, 1938, edited by Jewell Mayes-the 1st of the special series)
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Presented In narrative form, this eye-witness report, as written in the diary of the late Thomas Hankins of Rayville, Missouri, a Lieutenant in the Missouri Militia, provides the best description of the historic local battle of “old Albany,” a mile north of Orrick, Ray County, Mo.
The late W. Earle Dye, in his youthful days as a historical researcher and journalist, secured the diary of Thomas Hankins, who stipulated that it be not published until certain old timers died. This manuscript appeared as a feature page in The Richmond Missourian several years later, here published in different arrangement as a contribution to the permanent history of the Free State of Ray, as follows:
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BY THOMAS HANKINS
In October 1864, General Sterling Price made his last raid, coming into Missouri from Arkansas. After several sharp conflict, he arrived before Jefferson City and invested it, finding the Capitol, occupied by General Fisk, with 5,000 men, fortified by fresh
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