Posted on 10/18/2022 11:44:37 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1862, Union Gen. John McNeil had ten Confederate soldiers shot in what history has recorded as the Palmyra Massacre.
The Slave Power’s northern salient, Missouri was surrounded to the east, north, and west by free soil — which made it an antebellum flashpoint since the days of the Missouri Compromise.*
In the 1850s, the Missouri conflict spilled into neighboring Kansas as the enemy sides of the slavery question fought to determine whether Kansas would enter the Union as slave state or free. The Missouri borderlands of Bleeding Kansas was where the radical abolitionist martyr John Brown made his name, commanding free state militia in a guerrilla war that presaged the coming clash of North and South.
By the time we lay our scene in 1862, John Brown has exited courtesy of Virginia’s gallows, and the dragon’s teeth sown in Missouri and Kansas and everywhere else had sprung to horrible life. Missouri’s own civil war pitted neighbor against neighbor throughout the state in a bushwhacking conflict that extended locally for many years after Appomattox.**
The nastiness of the years to come is aptly suggested by this date’s events.....
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The War Between The States.
Abe’s precedent setting invasion by the Empire.
War of Northern Aggression.....or as my Aunt used to say....”That recent unpleasantness”
Wonder if this is related to how “Outlaw Josie Wales” came to be?
Probably inspired it. One of the things that makes Clint Eastwood a great actor/director is his ability to do basic historical research.
Lincoln declared the citizens of the states which had seceded “rebels” which meant that it was OK to burn down their houses and steal their livestock. Just like the Democrats declaring the January 6 protestors “insurrectionists” so they are not entitled to bail or a speedy trial...or a fair trial when it actually happens.
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