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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THE RICHMOND MISSOURIAN, RICHMOND, MISSOURI

MONDAY, JUNE 27, 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.

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(No. 431 of “Ray County Chapters” in the Richmond Missourian of June 27, 1938, by Jewell Mayes; the 4th of the special series.)

The fourth chapter, full of military action of the eye-witness story of the battle of Old Albany, fought on Thursday, October 27, 1864, is told by Lieutenant Thomas Hankins as follows:

BY THOMAS HANKINS

Immediately behind the previously planned retreating line of Lieutenant Baker appeared Captain Bill Anderson and about fifty of his men, yelling and shooting “like the very devil.”

When within a few yards of the Federal line, Anderson was shot through the left temple, and after passing entirely through the Federal line, he was seen to pitch forward and fall of his horse. He fell with his read to the east.

The main body of the Confederates deployed to the north, the north column led by Captain George W. Hendley and the south led by Clell Miller. Captain Hendley made a charge, and attempted to pass to the rear Read the rest of this entry »

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Graves Found Near Orrick

Where the 1864 Was Battle Fought

By TOM BOGDON - Richmond News, Richmond, Ray County Missouri

Both tradition in the Orrick area and the facts of the battle point to a row of graves in an old cemetery a quarters mile northeast of J.D.’s Store in Orrick as the last resting place of 10 pr 11 Confederate guerillas killed with Capt. William T. “Bloody Bill” Anderson in a battle with Union troops on Oct. 27,1864., ‘ The action took place near Albany, which has virtually disappeared but in the 1860s included a grist mill, general store, blacksmith shop and one pr two churches and had a population of 150.

Albany was three quarters of a mile northeast of Orrick. The only remnants of the town are rock walls that run through part of the townsite.

The smoke still hung in the air at the Battle of Westport in what is now southern Kansas City when Bloody Bill Anderson met his demise at Albany along with 10 of his men.

The three-day Battle of Westport started Oct. 24, and the much smaller but significant Albany action occurred Oct. 27. The outcome at Westport was that Confederate forces under Gen. Sterling Price failed to break the Union hammerlock on Missouri. The outcome at Albany was that by killing Capt. Anderson Union forces were able to greatly reduce guerilla harassment in Central Missouri that had plagued them throughout the war.

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