Battlefield Dispatches 193: 'Worse than Guerillas'

Friday, December 18, 2009

Now wait just a minute! How on earth could anyone be "WORSE than GUERRILLAS" in the Civil War? Now if one was from Missouri & of the "Southern Persuasion, this would make perfect sense when referring to the "Kansas Jayhawkers" or "Red legs" as many of these soldiers were 'Bad to the Bone" because that is the way they & YES, the "Guerrillas" of Missouri waged war! However, this statement was made by a loyal MISSOURIAN who was a "Union" officer who described the specific way soldiers from a Kansas regiment waged war in 1864! Now let's just think for a minute! Who was one of the most despised "Union" officers in Missouri, who was from Kansas & conducted periodic raids into "The-Show-Me State" in 1861 & whose name lived on in infamy when he did the same thing as a civilian after he resigned from the "Union Army" in the spring of 1862. This of course was Charles "Doc" Jennison who organized the 7th Kansas Vol. Cavalry Regiment in the summer of 1861 whose nickname was & is Jennison's Jayhawkers!

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