Re: Centralia Massacre/17th Illinois Cavalry
He could've been just riding the train from Hannibal to St. Joe or someplace in between. Maybe he was carry a message from the gov. of Illinois to one of his constituant's son telling him his father had passed and he should come home on leave to attend to family business. Who knows, why he was in Centralia that fateful morning in September? That he was there or thereabouts I don't doubt or care to think about!