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Well known jayhawkers include [[John Brown (abolitionist)|John Brown]], [[Silas Soule]], [[James H. Lane (Senator)|James Henry Lane]], and Charles "Doc" Jennison. |
Well known jayhawkers include [[John Brown (abolitionist)|John Brown]], [[Silas Soule]], [[James H. Lane (Senator)|James Henry Lane]], and Charles "Doc" Jennison. |
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Kansas jayhawkers committed some of the most notorious atrocities of the Civil War, including the massacre at Osceola, Missouri, in which the entire town was set aflame and nearly all of the male residents killed, and allegedly engineering the collapse of a jail in Kansas City in which female relatives of bushwhackers were |
Kansas jayhawkers committed some of the most notorious atrocities of the Civil War, including the massacre at Osceola, Missouri, in which the entire town was set aflame and nearly all of the male residents killed, and allegedly engineering the collapse of a jail in Kansas City in which female relatives of bushwhackers were incarcerated by Union sympathizers because of their connection to pro-Confederate guerrillas. These two incidents precipitated the infamous retaliatory raid on Lawrence, Kansas, by William Quantrill and his band of bushwhackers. The sacking of Osceola also inspired the 1976 film The Outlaw Josey Wales directed by and starring Clint Eastwood. |
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Revision as of 04:39, 21 March 2006
"Jayhawkers" were radical guerrilla fighters during the American Civil War. However, as with the Confederate partisans, some merely used the Civil War as an excuse for theft and murder. Some jayhawkers were staunch abolitionists, while others had actually fought on the pro-slavery side of the Bloody Kansas affair prior to the outbreak of the Civil War.
Well known jayhawkers include John Brown, Silas Soule, James Henry Lane, and Charles "Doc" Jennison.
Kansas jayhawkers committed some of the most notorious atrocities of the Civil War, including the massacre at Osceola, Missouri, in which the entire town was set aflame and nearly all of the male residents killed, and allegedly engineering the collapse of a jail in Kansas City in which female relatives of bushwhackers were incarcerated by Union sympathizers because of their connection to pro-Confederate guerrillas. These two incidents precipitated the infamous retaliatory raid on Lawrence, Kansas, by William Quantrill and his band of bushwhackers. The sacking of Osceola also inspired the 1976 film The Outlaw Josey Wales directed by and starring Clint Eastwood.
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