After the Civil War, Southwest Missouri was a devastated area characterized by a failing economy, high taxes, lawlessness, disorder, and a general breakdown of society, especially in the area’s small towns and rural regions.
FIFY - After the Biden election steal, Southwest Missouri was a devastated area characterized by a failing economy, high taxes, lawlessness, disorder, and a general breakdown of society, especially in the area’s small towns and rural regions.
A first-person account of that war in Missouri is Bushwhacker: Autobiography of Samuel S. Hildebrand, a Southern guerrilla. In several instances, Hildebrand writes of capturing a Union man and taking him down the road and hanging him, or of shooting Unionists in their yard or fields. Forgiveness was almost an unknown. A fictionalized account is Woe to Live On, and/or the movie version, Ride with the Devil. All of the border states had turmoil and violence during and after that war, but Missouri more than the others. Bushwhackers and Jayhawkers.
Per family tradition, one of my ancestors was a Missouri Partisan Ranger who rode in the Lawrence, Kansas raid. At one of the places I worked, it turned out that my boss's family came from Lawrence, Kansas and were fierce Jayhawkers and Red Legs. We actually spend a couple of afternoons trying to find out if my family murdered his, or his family murdered mine.
lived about 20 minutes north of Tanney County a few years ago. some of the older folks had some pretty gruesome stories they had heard from their parents.
We need a group like that to take care of the punks that killed the granny in the carjacking
ReplyDeleteFIFY - After the Biden election steal, Southwest Missouri was a devastated area characterized by a failing economy, high taxes, lawlessness, disorder, and a general breakdown of society, especially in the area’s small towns and rural regions.
ReplyDeleteThat's what struck me right at the start.
DeleteA first-person account of that war in Missouri is Bushwhacker: Autobiography of Samuel S. Hildebrand, a Southern guerrilla. In several instances, Hildebrand writes of capturing a Union man and taking him down the road and hanging him, or of shooting Unionists in their yard or fields. Forgiveness was almost an unknown. A fictionalized account is Woe to Live On, and/or the movie version, Ride with the Devil. All of the border states had turmoil and violence during and after that war, but Missouri more than the others. Bushwhackers and Jayhawkers.
ReplyDeletePer family tradition, one of my ancestors was a Missouri Partisan Ranger who rode in the Lawrence, Kansas raid. At one of the places I worked, it turned out that my boss's family came from Lawrence, Kansas and were fierce Jayhawkers and Red Legs. We actually spend a couple of afternoons trying to find out if my family murdered his, or his family murdered mine.
ReplyDeletelived about 20 minutes north of Tanney County a few years ago. some of the older folks had some pretty gruesome stories they had heard from their parents.
ReplyDeletereminds me of the Knight Riders of Reelfoot Lake
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