Louis Democrat: JEFFERSON CITY, Nov. 28, 1862. Attention has been directed to the subject of shooting bushwackers by some recent publications in the papers. The following extract, which is taken ...

Technically. Shortly after the Civil War ended, a state of detente broke out between Jayhawkers and Bushwhackers. Dean said commerce was a stabilizing factor. Towns in Missouri wanted the food ...

Before the Civil War, almost nobody in Missouri supported the abolition ... highly controversial use of the state militia to battle bushwackers who attempted to interfere in the election ...

Jesse James rode with Bill Anderson's bushwhackers into the small Missouri town of Centralia. There the 16-year-old James took part in one of the worst atrocities of the Civil War. The ...

Bushwhackers kidnapped the infant Carver and his mom from his slave home at the end of the Civil War. “Taken ... of The State Historical Society of Missouri. “He was successful in retrieving ...

Jake Roedel and Jack Bull Chiles are friends in Missouri when the Civil War starts ... so the young men join the Bushwhackers, irregulars loyal to the South. One is a Black man, Daniel Holt ...