Commanded by Major A.V.E. Johnston, 155 Union soldiers pursued William T. "Bloody Bill" Anderson's 80 guerillas to their encampment southeast of Centralia.
One hundred Missouri bushwhackers-turned-bank robbers, led by guerrilla Archie Clement, occupy Lexington in opposition to Radical Republican actions against Missouri secessionists.
Confederate bushwhackers led by notorious guerrilla Archie Clement (who had taken over for "Bloody Bill" Anderson after his death), demand the surrender of Lexington, Missouri, despite the surrender of General Robert E. Lee a month prior.
Fresh off his infamous raid on Lawrence, Kansas, William Clarke Quantrill leads his force of 400 bushwhackers against the earth-and-log structure of Fort Blair, outside of Baxter Springs, Kansas
Just four days after being defeated at the Battle of Independence (and suffering casualties and property damage to the actions of area guerillas) some 1,300 Union soldiers under command of General Fitz Henry Warren and Major Emory Foster go on the offensive against the secessionist forces.
A makeshift Union prison holding female relatives and associates of proslavery Missouri bushwhackers (by order of General Thomas Ewing Jr.) collapses, killing four of the women.
