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COLUMBIA — Capt. Young Purcell of Audrain County and Lt. John Brown of Boone County led a guerrilla raid that freed prisoners in the county jail and sent Union troops scurrying for cover at the ...

http://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/kcur/local-kcur-968018.mp3 KANSAS CITY, MO. – American history in the form of the Civil War has become immensely ...

In September 1864, Jesse James rode with Bill Anderson's bushwhackers into the small Missouri town of Centralia. There the 16-year-old James took part in one of the worst atrocities of the Civil War.

It was August 21, 1863, and hell had come to town at Lawrence, Kansas. For years prior to the beginning of the hostilities that officially started the Civil War, a guerrilla war had been fought along ...

WESTON, Mo. — Missouri guerrilla William Quantrill and hundreds of other men on horseback converged at the summit of Mount Oread in Lawrence in the early-morning darkness of Aug. 21, 1863. What would ...

MEXICO, Mo. — Guerrillas were using two flatboats to cross the Missouri River at will near Claysville in Boone County, Brig. Gen. Joseph Douglass reported to Union headquarters in St. Louis. Relaying ...