[Sherman Logan]

the Jayhawk War had already been played out before the Kansas/Nebraska problem

I'm curious what you mean by this. The term originated in the free-state militias of "bleeding Kansas," which was a direct result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

[muawiyah]

The Jay Hawk war was yet to come, yet it's form and substance had "already been previously played out in". How's that.

All you need to know is about the various conflicts taking place in Arkansas from the mid 1830s onward and the original sentence makes sense.

If you didn't know they were playing "slice and dice" in Arkansas, then it might not make sense.