Technically. Shortly after the Civil War ended, a state of detente broke out between Jayhawkers and Bushwhackers. Dean said commerce was a stabilizing factor. Towns in Missouri wanted the food ...

A sociopath who lived for spilling blood, William Anderson was one of the most fearsome leaders of Confederate guerrillas in Civil War Missouri ... several groups of "bushwhackers" operating ...

Before the Civil War, almost nobody in Missouri supported the abolition ... highly controversial use of the state militia to battle bushwackers who attempted to interfere in the election ...

"The years of the Civil War were bleak ones for the churches of Missouri," wrote Duane Myer in "The Heritage of Missouri: A ...

Jake Roedel and Jack Bull Chiles are friends in Missouri when the Civil War starts ... so the young men join the Bushwhackers, irregulars loyal to the South. One is a Black man, Daniel Holt ...