Battlefield Dispatches No. 257: 'Outlaw'

Friday, March 18, 2011

According to Mr. Webster, one of the definitions of an "Outlaw, is "a habitual or notorious criminal who is a fugitive from the law." During the Civil War, there were many "outlaws" who were former soldiers of the Blue or the Gray and there were also those who never wore a uniform and were civilian outlaws. The following is a brief description of the life of a "Kansas Outlaw" by the name of Capt. Marshall Cleveland that was included in Wagon Boss R.M. Peck's article that was published in the Thursday, July 28, 1904 edition of the National Republican newspaper in Washington, D.C. Peck describes Cleveland as a Jayhawker from Kansas, which he was before he went over to dark side and became an outlaw.

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