![]() Clinton Fisk wrote in a dispatch to Macon. “It is as revolting as despair itself, and the blood of these murdered men cries out to every loyal Missourian for vengeance,” Brig. In Centralia, 79 of the dead were buried in a common grave. On the march, his treatment eased noticeably, Goodman wrote, after Anderson asked him how he was faring, then told him: “You, my man, are the first being whose life I ever spared, who was caught in federal blue!”Ībout 150 men died two days earlier at Centralia, 23 unarmed soldiers taken from a train and more than 120 from the 39th Missouri Infantry killed in a brief fight with 400 guerrillas. ![]() ![]() “This was tough and ‘against my grain,’ but I went to work with a ‘blacksmith’s’ energy, and I gave him such a rubbing and scratching he’ll remember as long as he’s a horse,” Goodman wrote in “A Thrilling Record,” his memoir of captivity. Goodman, the only soldier taken prisoner at Centralia to live through the experience, was roused at daylight and ordered to curry comb the horse and saddle it for Anderson. ![]() Thomas Goodman bought goodwill from the infamous guerrilla Bill Anderson by doing a good job grooming his horse. ![]()
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