JUNE 20, 1861:
Senator
Jim Lane of Kansas is appointed the Commander of the State’s pro-Union
Volunteer Militia. His “Redlegs” are being raised to repel pro-Confederate
“Missouri Border Ruffians” (pro-secessionists), but the Civil War in Kansas
continues the legacy of “Bleeding Kansas” of 1854-59. Both sides degenerate
into bands of bushwhackers and marauders prone to rape, pillage and atrocity.
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