[Ursus arctos horribilis]

Offering no excuses for either side.

But, the burning down of farms and homes when the men were gone, the turning out of the women & young to starve in the the dead of winter. A free fire zone along the border of Missouri to kill women & children. The red legs murdering the citizens & burning down the town of Nevada Missouri.

The unionists committed mass murder when they shot down 30 unarmed southern men in St. Louis, .

Imprisoning women & children in a unsafe and over crowded building in Kansas City, where the building collapsed, killing many of them.

All of this was a call for bloody retaliation in kind. Such acts made more than a few partisan rangers have dark thoughts of ruthless revenge.

You decry the Lawrence Kansas debacle, well, payback is a bitch

[Non-Sequitur]

You decry the Lawrence Kansas debacle, well, payback is a bitch

So if it's OK to kill innocent Unionists then it must also be OK to kill innocent Southern supporters. What's good for the goose must also be good for the gander.

[CompSciGuy]

The unionists committed mass murder when they shot down 30 unarmed southern men in St. Louis.

Who were in the process of rioting and attempting to take over the capitol of the state at the time. They were committing seditious acts, and were killed after they did not disband.

How do I know all of this? I grew up there, and my university (Saint Louis University) now exists where ground zero of the riot was. Missouri was never the Balkans of the U.S. Your history is evidently biased from the "Ozark" point of view.

Cheers,
CSG