Anderson's guerrillas burn a train and depot at Centralia
September 27, 1864, Centralia, Missouri.
- Date
- September 27, 1864
- Where
- Centralia, Missouri
- What happened
- Burned
- Event
- 130 of 174
Price encouraged guerrillas to disrupt the railroads during his invasion. Bill Anderson's men blocked the North Missouri at Centralia, stopped a train and killed 24 Union soldiers on leave. They set the train on fire, sent it down the track toward Sturgeon and burned the depot.