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Gallery: Missouri Outlaws

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Known as "Bloody Bill," Anderson was the head of a notorious group of Missouri bushwhackers. He led a group of pro-Confederate guerrillas, including a young Jesse James, in a massacre of Union soldiers on September 27, 1864. He met his own end in an ambush a month later, at the age of 25.

Known as "Bloody Bill," Anderson was the head of a notorious group of Missouri bushwhackers. He led a group of pro-Confederate guerrillas, including a young Jesse James, in a massacre of Union soldiers on September 27, 1864. He met his own end in an ambush a month later, at the age of 25.

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