>This order was different because the civilians were now guilty just because they were relatives of known guerrillas. The Federal authorities did not have to prove them guilty of a crime.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1932210669207929206.html

Jesse James and co. were a bunch of fags LARPing as modern day land privateers because they missed their chance to die like real men from dysentery in the War

>The conflict with Confederate bushwhackers rapidly escalated into a succession of atrocities committed in Missouri. Hostage-taking and banishment were employed by local District and Union commanders to punish secessionist sympathizers. Individual families, including that of Jesse and Frank James and the maternal grandparents and mother of future President Harry Truman, were banished from Missouri.

>Union troops often executed or tortured suspects without trial and burned the homes of guerrillas and those suspected of aiding or harboring them. If official credentials were doubted, the suspects were often executed, as in the case of Lt. Col. Frisby McCullough after the Battle of Kirksville. Bushwhackers retaliated by ambushing federal soldiers and frequently going house to house and executing Unionist sympathizers

Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War by T. J. Stiles is a great book for understanding the vicious conflict in Missouri that spawned the postwar criminal gangs. Endless neighbor-on-neighbor atrocities, more like the civil wars of the 20th century rather than the mostly “put on a uniform and fight hard but clean” norm of the ACW.

Seeing people on twitter compare modern dems and the rioters in LA to Jefferson Davis and men like Bloody Bill.. makes me want to found out the answer to life's greatest question.
Is there life after death?

>>17751092
Based and Stiles-pilled
His Vanderbilt biography is also great

>>17751032
>Bushwhackers retaliated by ambushing federal soldiers and frequently going house to house and executing Unionist sympathizers

Based

t. ancestor killed loads of them at Lawrence

>>17751092
>“put on a uniform and fight hard but clean” norm of the ACW.
Read any Union memoir and you'll find a shitload of asides about Confederate guerillas and bushwhackers sniping and butchering. They hated them more than the regular rebels for pretty obvious reasons. They did some nasty shit and got hunted down like dogs.

>>17751032
The Bushwhackers were mostly sons of landowners who settled in Missouri who were pro slavery. Many of them were attacked first and became rebels to avenge their families. Either case, it became a blood feud between all these different families. It was some real medieval shit. If we ever see this kind of brutality in modern America, it's over.

>>17751092
The Union went giga stupid in Missouri and Kentucky

>>17753931
Real. Kentucky's governor told Lincoln he wasn't gonna give him any troops but Kentucky didn't secede, it should have considering what the Federals were gonna do next.
There's a reason Kentucky is tossed into the South on maps nowadays.

>>17753936
"Your dispatch is received. In answer, I say emphatically, Kentucky will furnish no troops for the wicked purpose of subduing her sister Southern States."
~ Gov. Magoffin, KY. April 1861

>>17753931
>>17753936
And don't forget Missouri.
"Requisition is illegal, unconstitutional, revolutionary, inhuman, diabolical, and can not be complied with."
~ Gov. Jackson, MO. April 1861
>>17753828
>We're invading their homes, burning their fields, raping their female relatives/wives
>Boy these guerillas and bushwhackers really hate us!
I wonder why

>>17753946
>when you're really bad at editing images and really really bad at humor but you still have something stupid to say

>>17750969
>ackshually knights all died shitting themselves XD
You will never manage to subvert the eternal honor of warriors.

>>17753936

I remember reading an article awhile back arguing that if Kentucky or Maryland had joined the Confederacy, it might have legitimately swung the war in the South's favor. They both could have committed hundreds of thousands of additional troops to the Confederate Army, industries that could have kept it better equipped, blocked the Union Army from invading Tennessee and eventually the Deep South, and served as a launchpad for invading deep into the North.

>>17754242
If Maryland had, D.C. would have been captured in a matter of weeks and the whole Northern war effort would have either collapsed or turned into an even bigger bloodbath more akin to the way Royalists were treated during the Revolution

>>17753946
>>We're invading their homes, burning their fields, raping their female relatives/wives
>implying those southern belles didn't spread their lily white thigh for Yankee BVLLS willingly while their lustful brothers seethed impotently in the bush
Absolutely delusional

>>17753954
Go to the fields of Flanders and Verdun and ask the ghosts there how much honor they feel as they rot in the mud, anonymous and alone

>>17754386
Incredible pathology on display here.

>>17753910
Anyone with fantasies about a civil war in modern America should read about Missouri. Balkans/Lebanon/Spain in the 30s shit. A lot of it was just petty revenge on the chud who sold you a lame mule or hit on Liza Jane at the square dance.
Missouri also had one of the farthest north outposts of southern culture in the “Little Dixie” region, depicted by Mark Twain in his antebellum fiction. Some of my people are from there but I don’t know about any guerrilla stuff, just one ancestor’s service in the Missouri Brigade.

>>17754403
>t. jealous cousinfucker cucked by Yankee Doodle's ivory tower

>>17750925 (OP)
Hero

>>17751032
Based

>>17754391
>>17750969
War is hell, blockhead

>>17753948
>>17754386
Bet you won’t lasted a day in Iraq or Afghanistan

>>17757609
>you won’t lasted
is this some new grammar I was not onformed about?

History class never tells ya this shit