Battlefield Dispatches No. 287: 'A return visit'

Friday, October 21, 2011

During the Civil War the same "armies" normally did not return and march over or through the same battlefields they fought on. However, there were occasionally exceptions to this, and such was the case in October of 1861 when the infamous, if one is from Missouri or of the "Southern Persuasion," and I repeat, infamous Kansas Brigade commanded by the "Grim Chieftain" himself, Brig. Gen. James Henry Lane, made "a return visit" to Osceola, Mo. There was not much left to destroy in that formerly prosperous town on the Osage River, because the Kansas Brigade had for all practical purposes completely destroyed Osceola on its rampage through western Missouri on Sept. 24, 1861, and for good measure they burned the town to ashes.

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