![]() ![]() With families being split along political lines instead of blood lines. This, they said, made them abolitionists.”Īs I am reading this book, I can’t help but be reminded of the political discourse happening today. ![]() Sometimes they had so much plunder n***ers were needed to haul it, so they took a few along. ”Jayhawkers said they raided to free slaves, but mostly they freed horseflesh from riders, furniture from houses, cattle from pastures, precious jewelry from family troves and wives from husbands. The Jayhawkers, based out of Lawrence, Kansas, are the most hated of the Union supporters. This is a time in the territories when long standing feuds can be ended by accusing your enemies of being Seceshs (secessionists) if you are talking to Union troops or calling them Yankee sympathizers if you are talking to the Bushwhackers who are loosely tied to the Confederate cause. They are men from Kansas and Missouri who choose not to head South to join the Confederacy but to stay close to home to bring the fight to the Yankee soldiers and civilians. They call themselves the First Kansas Irregulars, which is an apt designation given the fact that they are a bunch of feral young men turned loose on the countryside in search of mayhem more than fighting for a cause. ”’ Good’ doesn’t mean anything like what it used to mean.
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