And for the record, the Lawrence raid was most immediately provoked by an atrocity committed by the yankee military on Jayhawker influence via Senator Lane.
A week before, union command had rounded up the wives and children of known confederates in western missouri for imprisonment. One of the makeshift prisons was a shaky old building in disrepair that was filled with prisoners despite its known structural flaws. The building collapsed killing several of the imprisoned civilians and injuring several more. "Bloody" Bill Anderson, one of the main organizers of the Lawrence raid, was provoked into action by the prison collapse. One of his sisters was killed and another severely crippled by it.