NEVADA, Mo. — Bushwhackers were Missouri-based Confederate partisans who believed they were defending their homes and families against the federal government and Union sympathizers during the Civil ...
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On Aug. 21, 1863, William Clarke Quantrill and several hundred Missouri bushwhackers rode into the abolitionist stronghold of Lawrence. Hell had come to breakfast. Quantrill’s men burned huge swaths ...
GLASGOW — Rebels and Southern sympathizers were becoming bolder as martial law eased, causing worry that guerrillas and bushwhackers would target the relatively untouched Central Missouri counties, ...
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