Centralia Massacre (Missouri) Puns

1864 Presidential Election

The presidential election of 1864 is perhaps the least talked about battle of the American Civil War. Abraham Lincoln (R-IL) was serving as the 16th president of the United States after defeating John C. Breckinridge (D-KY), John Bell (R-TN), and Stephen A. Douglas (D-IL)four years earlier.

This time around Lincoln would be facing only one man, George B. McClellan (D-NJ). He was born in Philadelphia in the year 1826, his father is the founder of the Jefferson Medical College. He was accepted into the United States Military Academy at the age of fifteen, the academy had the minimum age of sixteen waived. After a fifteen year military career, that included overseeing European armies during the Crimean War of 1855, he resigned from commission and took an interest in Politics. Supposedly he sabotaged a “Republican Voting Fraud” attempt which helped the Democrats win that county in the 1860 Presidential Election.

Four years later he found himself representing the Democratic party and the entire Confederacy. Which by 1864 was in truly bad shape, they were being pushed back on most of their fronts as Union generals such as Grant and Sherman made strong advancements into the south. Despite all these negatives many confederate men felt all they needed to turn the tide was to ensure McClellan won the election.

Confederate General Sterling Price of the Missouri State Guard was one of those men. With an overall goal of influencing the election in McClellan’s favor, Gen. Price planned on capturing the city of St. Louis and the state capital Jefferson City. To help with this invasion he encouraged attacks on railroads and trains which would disrupt the Union supply lines.

Centralia Massacre

On the morning of September 27th, William T. “Bloody Bill” Anderson and his insurgent group of 80 guerrilla fighters went into the town of Centralia MO. Their plan was to disguise themselves as Union soldiers and disrupt part of the Northern Missouri Railroad but first they looted the town and legend has drank whiskey from boots stolen off of the town residents.

Anderson and his group moved into position along the railroad and soon the train came rumbling towards them carrying 125 passengers with 23 of them being Union soldiers on leave after the Battle of Atlanta. After successfully stopping the train Anderson and his men ordered the Union solders off and stripped them of their uniforms.

“Bloody Bill” requested a volunteer

Raw and unprocessed still, straight from the Washington State Archives. Ask me anything about the contents.

Prepared in conjunction with IWW member DJ Alperovitz, a staff librarian at The Evergreen State College, and myself. Which is to say that I scanned it, with input, advice and some cash for my time from others.

Anyway, enjoy. Feel free to ask about it, as the data is pretty raw. Also have pictures of silent agitators, surviving bullets, and other Cool Shit (TM)

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1k_BwViM4ntNP_x2lUllsghnl_nadWrCP

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1URCpfyiFv7Y2mEt-pY8P0XZmfxkn5tVw

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1oxZ0nuPpfdOt7o-weZIwWcktKn-Sqji5

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ufnLl1vFXClEL85KiJFt5pEqUh4CNzQj

A rather diverse and sometimes high end array of guns were used in the Centralia Massacre. Better than you might expect from a labor union that heavily recruited from the lowest levels of the working class.

A century later, there is still a lot of division over the events in 1919, but nobody has attempted to write about the guns used that fatal day in Centralia. Until now...

I've got a lot of cool archival material I'm using in my research and had a chance to examine surviving bullets and projectile fragments from the massacre.

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https://news.yahoo.com/local-health-departments-missouri-halt-171028320.html

>Multiple local health departments in rural Missouri have halted most or all of their COVID-19 tracking and prevention work after Attorney General Eric Schmitt ordered agencies to comply with a recent court ruling this week.
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>Those departments' decisions follow the lead of Laclede County, whose health authorities said Thursday it would discontinue contact tracing, case investigations and its quarantine policy. Schmitt sent letters to local health agencies this week ordering that they repeal mask mandates, isolation and quarantine require"and other public health orders."
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>McDonald County, in the far corner of southwest Missouri, said Thursday it had "ceased all COVID-19 orders," including isolation and quarantine policies.

I can't process this. It's pure insanity and I don't understand how any Missouri voter would want this.

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