ks_hunter
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- Feb 24, 2008
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- Garrett At Pro, Tesoro Tejon & 2 Banditos, Garrett Ace 250
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- All Treasure Hunting
Courtesy of the Wichita Eagle today..
It was an interesting read on CW happenings in little ol' Kansas..
- Antietam, Gettysburg, Bull Run were all Civil War battles that took place elsewhere.
Of the hundreds of battles fought during the Civil War, four were fought on Kansas soil, and at least two dozen skirmishes were fought in Kansas.
But four stand out as major sites. Two are the sites of Confederate raids in Lawrence and Baxter Springs, and both have ties to Confederate guerrilla leader William Quantrill.
Those two raids would be used as fodder to inflame the anger of Union officers and soldiers who used the battles of Mine Creek and the Marais des Cygnes a year later as a chance for revenge.
This year marks the 150th anniversary of Quantrill’s raid on Lawrence and Baxter Springs.
The Civil War took a hard toll on Kansans in 1863 and 1864, with ferocity and violence.
Quantrill’s most infamous raid occurred on Aug. 21, 1863, when he and his raiders sacked Lawrence. On his orders, they aimed to kill “every man big enough to carry a gun.” Raiders killed 150 abolitionists, all of them men.
But Quantrill wasn’t done.
It was an interesting read on CW happenings in little ol' Kansas..
- Antietam, Gettysburg, Bull Run were all Civil War battles that took place elsewhere.
Of the hundreds of battles fought during the Civil War, four were fought on Kansas soil, and at least two dozen skirmishes were fought in Kansas.
But four stand out as major sites. Two are the sites of Confederate raids in Lawrence and Baxter Springs, and both have ties to Confederate guerrilla leader William Quantrill.
Those two raids would be used as fodder to inflame the anger of Union officers and soldiers who used the battles of Mine Creek and the Marais des Cygnes a year later as a chance for revenge.
This year marks the 150th anniversary of Quantrill’s raid on Lawrence and Baxter Springs.
The Civil War took a hard toll on Kansans in 1863 and 1864, with ferocity and violence.
Quantrill’s most infamous raid occurred on Aug. 21, 1863, when he and his raiders sacked Lawrence. On his orders, they aimed to kill “every man big enough to carry a gun.” Raiders killed 150 abolitionists, all of them men.
But Quantrill wasn’t done.
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