Battlefield Dispatches No. 281: 'Marauding, atrocities and plundering'

Friday, September 9, 2011

Even before the infamous Kansas "Lane Brigade" invaded the "Land of Misery" ("Union" soldiers' nickname for Missouri), its reputation had already been established by small groups of marauding Jayhawkers who crossed the "line" in small groups killing Missourians and plundering their homes.

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