Borderruffian
1st Lieutenant
- Joined
- Aug 4, 2007
- Location
- Marshfield Missouri
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So bacically what your saying is that families who could not prove to the satisfaction of the CG district of the border (Ewing, a former Kansas SC justice) their loyalty to the Union had it a comin to em cause they was Missourians? regardless OF THEIR ACTUAL LOYALTIES?
Yeah the women and kids and elderly got of really easy banished from their homes unable to take all their possessions banished from the district by Ewing under political threats by Lane, oh and plenty of men and boys were lost during the carrying out of this order , that effected far more people than Lawrence, pray tell why do you think it was called the Burnt District ?
Try as you will the order and the things it caused can no be absolved than the Lawrence Raid accesses both were beyond the pale and both were how the war in Missouri and Kansas was.
I have already stipulated that the Union COIN war in Missouri was not fought on a textbook perfect level. Yes armed teenagers fought on both sides. On the other hand as I have shown the Bushwackers did kill unarmed young boys including civilian boys .
We don't know what Anderson and Quantrill thought about possible repercussions from the raid. Logic dictates that after a brutal action such as Lawrence the Union especially the Kansas Union troops would seek out some kind of revenge.
Considering the brutality of the Lawrence Massacre the Union reprisals such has Order # 11 were comparatively mild. The Kansas troops did not shoot down every man and boy over 13 in the Burnt district. Missourians in the Burnt District would loose their homes but not their menfolk. Therefore they suffered less then the womenfolk of Lawrence.
Leftyhunter
So bacically what your saying is that families who could not prove to the satisfaction of the CG district of the border (Ewing, a former Kansas SC justice) their loyalty to the Union had it a comin to em cause they was Missourians? regardless OF THEIR ACTUAL LOYALTIES?
Yeah the women and kids and elderly got of really easy banished from their homes unable to take all their possessions banished from the district by Ewing under political threats by Lane, oh and plenty of men and boys were lost during the carrying out of this order , that effected far more people than Lawrence, pray tell why do you think it was called the Burnt District ?
Try as you will the order and the things it caused can no be absolved than the Lawrence Raid accesses both were beyond the pale and both were how the war in Missouri and Kansas was.