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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JUDGE T.R. SHOUSE, AFTER 56 YEARS, EXPLAINS WHY JESSE JAMES WAS KILLED.

Aged and Respected Clay Countian Turns Over to Jewell Mayes and Elmer L. Pigg the Secret Statement of his father J.W. Shouse, Who planned to capture but Not to Kill Jesse James- A Dramatic yet True Account of the Final Breaking-up of the James Gang.

(Ray County Chapters)

(No 456 of “Ray County Chapters” January 9, 1939, the first of this special series in the Richmond Missourian)

As announced in the Richmond Missourian herewith is begun the publication of the unabridged manuscript of Judge Thomas Riley Shouse of Liberty, Missouri, making public in full the details of the final breaking up of the James Brothers gang.

Judge Shouse turned over his father’s statement (made to him 56 years ago) to Jewell Mayes and Elmer L. Pigg, who prepared it for publication. Mr. Pigg did most of the writing and research. Mr. Mayes submitted the manuscript to E.B. Garnett, Sunday editor of the Kansas City Star, version in the edition of December 18th. Read the rest of this entry »

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Judge T.R. Shouse, After 56 Years, Explains Why Jesse James Was Killed

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Aged and Respected Clay Countian Turns Over to Jewell Mayes and Elmer L. Pigg the Secret Statement of His father J.W. Shouse Who planned to Capture But Not To Kill Jesse James- A Dramatic Yet True Account of the Final Breaking-up of the James Gang.

(RAY COUNTY CHAPTERS)

(No. 457, edition of the Missourian of January 16, 1939, the second of the T.R. Shouse articles about Jesse James)

This is the second of the series of articles or Chapters by Judge T. R. Shouse of Clay County about the plan to capture Jesse James alive which resulted in his being killer, for reasons told for the first time for reasons told for the first time in the Shouse plan that had been kept secret for 56 years. See the Richmond Missourian of January 2nd for the first chapter, numbered 456, for the important background of this historical revelation. The narrative continues as follows:

By T.R. SHOUSE

Some time after the Gallatin bank robbery, two officers came to Liberty, Mo. To see if the Sheriff would go with them to the James farm and help them try to capture Frank and Jesse James.

Deputy Sheriff Captain John Thomason and his son, Deputy Oscar Thomason, consented to go with them. The Sheriff on his way out to Kearney remarked that if the James boys should happen to be at home there would be trouble. They replied “We have been up against such propositions before”.

When they arrived at the James far, the sheriff arranged his force for trouble if the James’ should happen to be there. He dismounted- hitched his horse- and ordered his two aids to stand by Oscar to go to the barn, and he started for the house. About the time he was ready to knock at the door, he heard firing at the barn. He ran back to his horse- but his two aids were not in sight!

The two James brothers had gone out of the barn at the back- there was a running fight for about a half-mile northwest, though through the pasture and into the public road.

The Thomasons were well mounted, were gaining on the boys, pressing them hard.

Jesse said to Frank, “What are we going to do?”. Frank replied, “Kill his horse.” Jesse turned in his saddle and killed Thomason’s horse.

Then father and son mounted the same horse and chased further, but the James brothers soon out-distanced them. John Thomason then went back to the James farm, procured a horse to ride back to Read the rest of this entry »

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Judge T.R. Shouse, After 56 Years, Explains Why Jesse James Was Killed

Aged and Respected Clay Countian Turns Over to Jewell Mayes and Elmer L. Pigg the Secret Statement of His father, J.W. Shouse, Who planned to Capture But Not to Kill Jesse James- A Dramatic Yet True Account of the Final Breaking-up of the James Gang.

(RAY COUNTY CHAPTERS)

(No. 458, In the Missourian of January 23, 1939, being the third and final number of the T.R. Shouse Chapters about the passing of Jesse James. See The Missourian of next Monday for a different history topic)

Today, “Ray County Chapters” present to you herewith the third and final Chapter from the manuscript bearing his signature of Judge Thomas Riley Shouse, as edited with his full approval by Elmer L. Pigg and Jewell Mayes, adding to the known history of the James boys in Clay and Ray Counties telling the true story of the why and wherefore of the killing of Jesse James.

These three Chapters prove that the thoughtless torturing of the Ford youth in trying to force him to tell of the whereabouts of his uncle, Jim Cummins, was the real cause of Bob Ford killing instead of capturing Jesse James, again demonstrating that blood is thicker than waters.

The Shouse manuscript is where completed as follows:

BY T.R. SHOUSE

My father had never approved of the detectives’ blundering attempts to capture Frank and Jesse. He was particularly resentful of that master blunder when the detectives surrounded the James home on the night of January 15th, 1875 and threw a bomb through the window of the James homes.

The exploding bomb killed Archie Peyton Samuels, Jesse’s eight and one-half year old half-brother, and tore off his mother’s right arm. Frank and Jesse were not at home that night or there would have doubtless been several more detectives killed.

My father had associated with him in his “plan”. William Wysong, James O Shouse, Joseph T. Pettigrew, William O. Dollis, William Dagley, Riley Henderson and Dick Little.

The plan was submitted to Governor Thomas T. Crittenden of Missouri, who approved every detail and armed the men for mutual protection. Jesse James was not to be killed, but to be over-powered and turned over to the officers of the law.

For several years every sheriff of Clay County had done his best to capture these outlaws. Sheriff James Timberlake, his deputy James Reed and Henry H. Craig. Police commissioner of Kansas City knew of the organizations and rendered every service possible. Read the rest of this entry »

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THE RICHMOND MISSOURIAN, RICHMOND, MISSOURI

JUNE 13, 1938

(RAY COUNTY CHAPTERS)

Eye-Witness Describes the Battle of Albany and the Killing of Captain Bill Anderson

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. 429 of “Ray County Chapters” in the Richmond Missourian of June 13, 1938, edited by Jewell Mayes’ 2nd of the series)

The following is the second of the original eye-witness narrative describing the battle of Old Albany, as told by Lieutenant Thomas Hankins, first published in the Richmond Missourian.

BY THOMAS HANKINS

On the following morning, before daylight, following the brush between Federal and Confederate forces, a runner arrived at Richmond, and reported to Captain John Hankins that a body of bushwhackers had captured James Crowley, a member of Hankin’s Company and that they had him as a prisoner in the timber west of the Crowley farm.

On consultation, it was directed that Captain John Hankins send his Company, under the command of Lieutenant J.T. Lamer, and fall in on the west of the guerrilla camp; for Company A. under Lieutenant McGowan, to form on the east and for Company B, under command of Lieutenant Baker, to move up on the main road to attack the guerilla camp.

This Company was led by the then Sergeant Thomas Hankins as pilot for Baker’s command. He found the Confederate enemy’s camp in heavy woods on the bluff, some distance west of the Crowley farm house. Read the rest of this entry »

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(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. 430 of “Ray County Chapters” in the Richmond Missourian of June 20, 1938, by Jewell Mayes; the 3rd of the series)

Without prefacing, the third chapter of the eye-witness description of the 1864 battle of Old Albany, as told by Lieutenant Thomas Hankins, appearing for the first time in the Missourian in form somewhat different from this series, appears as follows:

BY THOMAS HANKINS

On Wednesday, October 26, 1864, our Federal scouts reported that a large band of “rebels” were camped in the timber west of Old Albany, in the southwestern part of Ray County.

On further inquiry, it was learned that the band consisted of about one thousand men, about one-half of them recruits and either unarmed or only partly only armed, under the command of Captains George W. Hendley and Bill Anderson.

The Federal forces at Richmond consisted of about 500 efficient men, under the command of Major John Grimes of the 51st E.M.M. of Ray County.

On the evening before, these were joined by four or five companies of the 33rd E.M.M. Daviess county militia, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel C.S. Cox, augmenting the troops at Richmond about one Read the rest of this entry »

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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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THE RICHMOND MISSOURIAN, RICHMOND, MISSOURI

MONDAY, JULY 4, 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. 432 of “Ray County Chapters” in The Richmond Missourian of July 4, 1938, the fifth and closing chapter of the Old Albany battle series, to be followed by next Monday by a different topic)

With the publication of chapter No. 431 on Monday last, the personal or eye-witness report of the battle of Old Albany, fought on Thursday October 27, 1884, as seen by the Lieutenant Thomas Hankins of Rayville, Mo, was completed, following today by the fifth and closing chapter of the series, today’s data being from different sources, not chargeable to Mr. Hankins, who wrote his narrative from the Federal yet not bitter viewpoint.

WAS ANDERSON KILLED?- The question was raised a few years ago by a Texan, who alleged that Captain Bill Anderson was not killed at the battle of Old Albany, the old man claiming that Anderson lived for many years after the 1864 fight.

Jewell Mayes, inquiring in the interest of historic facts, listened to the late Captain Clayton Tiffin of Knoxville, Mo., later of Hamilton, Mo., talk about his civil War experiences as a Federal Captain as friendly toward the families of Confederate soldiers as he dared to be under the limitations of civil war.

Captain Tiffin had contacted Captain Anderson personally when he (Tiffin) was captured at Glasgow. Captain Tiffin was in front of the courthouse in Richmond when the body of Captain Bill Anderson was brought into town- he identified the body and the horse, being positive beyond shadow of a doubt that it was Anderson. Lieutenant Thomas Henkins was the first man of record who definitely identified Captain Anderson found lying dead on the battlefield.

Jim Cummins, a Confederate and fellow soldier with Captain Anderson, told Jewell Mayes that Anderson’s sisters at all times recognized that their brother was killed at Albany, and that they appealed to him to raise Read the rest of this entry »

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These are just a few of the rooms displayed at our wonderful

historic musuem. There are over 35 rooms displayed and all in a different theme!!

From the early 1800’s to the turn of the century. Our military rooms are by far some of the Best

One of our members’ father was in the Naval Military orchestra with John Phillip Sousa, there are pictures and his uniform to see and admire!

Among the many services of our museum includes reserving this formal parlor for your teas!! Organizations, schools, mother-daughter teas. Also, Mary Kay and other sales parties have had a special evening in our parlor!

This is the upstairs parlor. With the working pump organ, history in pictorals, a chest from the 1700’s…and more…………

ONE of our farm/barns….many, many tools including a Go-Devil..(if you don’t know what that is,..come in and see it!

Grandma’s bedroom, completly furnished, including a ‘thunder mug’ under the rope bed!!

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