Order No. 11 was issued four days after the August 21 Lawrence Massacre, a retaliatory killing of men and boys led by Confederate bushwhacker leader William Quantrill. The Union Army believed Quantrill's guerrillas drew their support from the rural popula ...

DEDICATED TO THE BRAVE MEN AND WOMEN OF CASS COUNTY WHO SERVED THAT FREEDOM AND JUSTICE SHOULD NOT PERISH FROM THE EARTH