Battlefield Dispatches No. 324: 'Inciting insurrection, jayhawkers and desperadoes'

Friday, July 6, 2012

During the Civil War in Missouri and Eastern Kansas, any individual who was captured by the Union forces could be, depending on the circumstances, charged with "inciting the insurrection," and if convicted of the same, executed by firing squad or hanging.

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