Perhaps you'll know who I'm trying to remember.....?
Yes Johnny Ringo, knew he was kinda famous, but not quite like Jesse james. Billy the Kid, Earps, Hickok.
Missourians migrated south to Texas and west to California during the war years. A significant portion of Missouri's prewar population left Missouri to escape the depredations brought to the State by Union regiments that had been deployed to occupy and pacify the population. When Union troops showed up, they systematically took control of the press, the banks, the churches and they robbed farms and businesses at will. All these measures levied against a State that had not seceded.
I've kept my Grandpa's old farm equipment, including a sulky rake, a couple of harrows, several old steel wheeled plows and a planter just like the implements on display in this video.
Yeah Mothers Family decamped from Missouri after General Order number 11 went into effect and settled in the Sherman Texas area and later moved west into the Hill Country near Fredericksburg. Missourians wore out the Texas Road through IT.
Exactly. West Central and Little Dixie Counties were abandoned by many descendants of the initial settlers. In many cases they were replaced by migrants from the northern States and/or 'the Dutch'. There was much less severe depopulation in Northwestern Missouri. I was born and raised and farmed in my community due to the fact my GGPa x 3 retained ownership of his farm and returned from northwest Arkansas after the war to reclaim it.
Parts of Little Dixie like Montgomery, Warren, Lincoln and Callaway had the Militia EMM, PEMM and MSM coming out of Gasconade County ( Herrman) which is still heavily German ( Dutch)in ethnic make up and still referred to as " South of River" to differentiate it from Little Dixie coming into those counties to "Punishing ze Slaveocrats Ja ja ve punishing zem gut."
I read somewhere once, that in the German communities in Central Missouri they would chide rowdy children with "You better be quiet or Dave Poole will come get you"
I've heard that about Dave Poole to don't remember where I read it either.
I've found it interesting that in a war where Union militia and guerrillas were rather equal opportunity killers, both took no/few prisoners and mistreated including occasionally killing civilians..........Dave Poole is the only one that it's often mentioned particularly had a thing for killing Germans and blacks specifically.
They apparently did it about Stonewall and Mosby too.
John McCorckle wrote about Davey Poole raiding the German settlement in Concordia, Missouri. Poole apparently has a particular dislike for that community. Maybe it was just the concentration of German immigrants that set him off.
Well you know the German Immigrant population wasn't very well regarded in Missouri at that time not even in St Louis, which was one of reasons Herr Sigel mustered his "Turner's" into Federal Service as well as recruiting enough additional "Dutch" to create a regiment. The idea was to make the German Immigrant vital to Der Union. Ja, ja. And make them more acceptable to the Native Born Americans.
Think alot of the James legend is because much of the story invokes sympathy.
Whether or not you think he is over awed by some for the wrong reasons is your opinion and your entitled to it . But the facts remains that Reconstruction had a lot to do with ourlawry Jesse slid into Understand I'm not condoning it but regardless of your opinion, it an effect.....on more men than Jesse or Frank or Cole no matter how you disagree with that statement, it did.
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