Anderson's band is camped in the little…

Anderson's band is camped in the little town of Albany, Missouri (just north of the present town of Orrick) by October.

When Federal troops attack the guerilla camp, the guerillas respond with a daring charge led by Anderson, who rides through the federal lines but is riddled with bullets.

Ten other guerillas are killed and the rest scatter.

The federal troops take Anderson's body to Richmond where a series of ghoulish photographs are taken, then decapitate him, placing his head on a pike.

His body is buried in an unmarked grave in Richmond; Federal troops reportedly urinate on his grave in the evening.

Finding flowers on the grave a few days later, the Federals reportedly trample the grave with their horses in an attempt to obliterate its location.

(In death, Anderson gains the now familiar nickname, “Bloody Bill”)