Union Guerrillas of Civil War Kansas: Jayhawkers and Red Legs - Paperback
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Union Guerrillas of Civil War Kansas: Jayhawkers and Red Legs
A Tumultuous Time in Kansas
Both before and during the American Civil War, ragtag groups of Kansas militants patrolled the Kansas-Missouri border. Known as "Jayhawkers" and later "Red Legs," they raided anyone they believed sympathetic to secession. For many in the state, these irregular warriors were heroes fighting for a Free Kansas and preservation of the Union; for their victims, these me...
Paul A. Thomas is a library specialist at the University of Kansas with a doctoral degree in library and information management from Emporia State University. He has long been fascinated with the history of Kansas during the territorial and Civil War periods. His first book, Haunted Lawrence (2017), focused on the paranormal folklore surrounding Lawrence, Kansas. Matt M. Matthews is a former...
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