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Anderson was soon promoted to lieutenant, achieving a quasi-independent command, and partook in raids in Westport, the state of Kansas, and Lafayette County, Missouri. Confederate sympathizers, including Anderson, believed the collapse intentional. Anderson soon became the most notorious guerrilla in Missouri, increasing his local support network and attracting bloodthirsty recruits, including Jesse James.

Fueled at least in part by revenge against Ewing, Quantrill led approximately Confederate raiders into pro-Union Lawrence, Kansas, on August 21, , killing between male citizens and burning and looting much of the town. Anderson and his men, including George M. Todd, Archie Clement, and Frank James, purportedly conducted themselves with excessive brutality. In Texas, tensions mounted between Anderson and Quantrill, resulting in Anderson having his commander arrested for murdering a Confederate officer.

Having robbed Unionist Congressman James S. The initial murders and the aftermath became known as the Centralia Massacre. Union forces under Lieutenant Colonel Samuel P. Cox, a former army scout, finally caught up with Anderson and his approximately men on October 27, A brief battle ensued in which Anderson was shot in the head and died instantly. For more information about the atrocities committed in the Centralia Massacre and the following skirmish, read this PBS American Experience discussion from a panel of Civil War experts.

In Anderson presented a film of this play, said to be the longest yet made in Australia and featuring the original cast, at his new open-air Olympia Theatre in Sydney. Unlike most managers of his day he was never an actor, but he collaborated in writing two melodramas, produced in , for the King's: The Winning Ticket , a drama of the Melbourne Cup, and By Wireless Telegraphy , based on the Crippen case, with Temple Harrison and Roy Redgrave as respective co-authors. In 'Wonderland City' had to be closed, having virtually ruined Anderson financially.

Though he retained nominal lesseeship of the King's, Melbourne, until , he handed over the theatre to Bailey and Duggan, who staged their famous dramatization of On Our Selection in From the end of World War I until the late s he was based at the Prince of Wales Theatre in Adelaide, with his daughter Mary often playing leading roles.

In he staged a season of old-style melodrama at the King's, but it closed earlier than advertised; the lurid sensation-drama on which his reputation had been built had been largely superseded as popular entertainment. In the s Anderson returned to Melbourne to live. The last show in which he had an interest was a pantomime, Sinbad the Sailor , staged by Charles Wenman at the King's in Eugenie, who had conducted a drama school after her retirement from the stage, died at St Kilda, Melbourne, on 2 November , aged Anderson, Jr.

He is broadly trained as both a hydrogeologist and a civil engineer, and has established a research program that uses groundwater modeling techniques and field data collection to quantify the controls on groundwater flow and solute and heat transport through unconfined aquifers. He studies this general problem in a variety of settings, from coastal barrier and barrier-island aquifers of the Outer Banks, southwestern England, and Wales, to the alluvial aquifers adjacent to mountain streams in northwestern North Carolina.

Much of his work focuses on the effects of storm events, such as the inundation of coastal aquifers during hurricane and tropical storm surges or the effects of individual storm events on urban aquifers, especially those that occur along Boone Creek. Anderson works extensively with undergraduate students on this research, from simple field data collection to more complex groundwater modeling projects, and he considers this undergraduate research mentorship to be some of the most important teaching that he does.

Many of his students give talks or present posters at professional meetings and several have published their findings in peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Hydrology , the Hydrogeology Journal , and the Journal of the American Water Resources Association. Visit Dr. Anderson's profile on Google Scholar. Email address: Email me. Skip to main content.