Besides the attack on Lawrence , the most notorious atrocity by Confederate bushwhackers was the murder of 24 unarmed Union soldiers pulled from a train in the Centralia Massacre in retaliation for the earlier execution of a number of Anderson 's own men . In an ambush of pursuing Union forces shortly thereafter , the bushwhackers killed well over 100 Federal troops . In October 1864 , " Bloody Bill " Anderson was tricked into an ambush and killed by state militiamen under the command of Col. Samuel P. Cox . Anderson 's body was displayed following his death
Centralia Massacre
Centralia Massacre (Missouri)
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