2011 Fall Newsletter

General order No. 11 By, Jim Bousman

* IBWF CFFO IBWJOH B EJď DVMU UJNF USZJOH UP EFDJEF XIBU UP XSJUF BCPVU UIJT NPOUI .Z NJOE TFFNT UP CF PDDVQJFE with the Civil War, hardships many non-combatants endured, and beyond Miami County. And yet, to some degree, there is a Miami County connection. In the April 27, 2011 edition of the Osawatomie Journal, Grady Atwater wrote an excellent article about William Quantrill’s early days in Miami County and his eventual conversion from being raised as an abolitionists to a Confederate Partisan. One of the stories we tell at the museum is the Quantrill story. ć FSF BSF NBOZ VOBOTXFSFE RVFTUJPOT SFMBUJOH UP UIF SPMF PG LOPXO BOE QPTTJCMF VOLOPXO QMBZFST JO UIF QVSTVJU PG 2VBOUSJMM Bę FS UIF -BXSFODF SBJE PO "VHVTU ć F SFDPSE TIPXT UIBU UISFF EJTUJOHVJTIFE 6OJPO Pď DFST XFSF SFGVTFE QFSNJTTJPO UP QVSTVF BOE FOHBHF 2VBOUSJMM CZ UIF DPNNBOEJOH Pď DFS BU 1BPMB XIFO 2VBOUSJMM XBT BU IJT XFBL est. We know the last rear guard action in Kansas took place west of Paola, that Quantrill’s force crossed Bull Creek 5 miles OPSUI PG 1 BPMB BQQSPYJN BUFMZ TU BOE ) BSN POZ BOE UI FO SFTUFE TPVUI PG ) JMTEBMF 8 F BMTP LOPX UI BU B SJĘ F VTFE CZ one of Quantrill’s men was recovered from a pond west of Hillsdale and a member of Quantrill’s force was hung at Rocky 'PSE ć PTF QSFDJPVT IPVST PG SFTU XJUIPVU QSFTTVSF GSPN 6OJPO GPSDFT BMMPXFE 2VBOUSJMM UP SFHBJO IJT TUSFOHUI BOE FT cape back into Missouri. ć F FYDJUFNFOU PVUSBHF BOE BOHFS UIBU CPJMFE VQ JO ,BOTBT Bę FS UIF -BXSFODF SBJE XBT UBLFO PVU PO UIF DJWJMJBO population of the four Missouri counties which became know as the “Burnt District”. Senator Jim Lane didn’t think Gen FSBM ć PNBT &XJOH XBT CFJOH BHHSFTTJWF FOPVHI BHBJOTU UIF DJWJMJBO QPQVMBUJPO BOE UISFBUFOFE UP MFBE IJT PXO GPSDF JOUP Missouri. On September 8, 1863, Senator Lane addressed a group of men at Paola with the intent of rallying them to fol low him into Missouri to recover property stolen at Lawrence. General Lane hoped to recruit 1000 men for this invasion, however, only a few hundred gathered for the rallying speeches. Midway through his speech a rain storm formed and the resulting rain dispersed the crowd. (Although the literature says that a 1000 men marched toward Westport on September 9th, there is no evidence to support the claim.) Although the foundation of the infamous General Order 11 was conceived months before General Ewing issued UIF 0SEFS UIF PSEFS T FČ FDU XBT EFWBTUBUJOH PO CPUI MPZBMJTU BOE TPVUIFSO TZNQBUIJ[FST (FOFSBM 0SEFS XBT JTTVFE PO

"VHVTU KVTU GPVS EBZT Bę FS UIF TBDLJOH PG -BXSFODF ć F intent of the order was to deprive the guerrillas of support from the MPDBM QPQVMBUJPO ć F PSEFS NBOEBUFE UIF FWBDVBUJPO PG BMM QFPQMFT living in rural Jackson, Cass, Bates and northern Vernon counties of Missouri, except in designated cities. Loyalist had to prove they were loyal to the Union and to move to within a mile of designated Union HBSSJTPOT " M UI PTF JODMVE JOH MPZBMJTU OPU HSBOUFE B DFSUJĕ DBUF CZ UI F Union Army, were forced to move out of the “Burnt District”. (Order 10, issued August 18, 1863, ordered all the wives and the children of known guerrillas, and also women who are heads of families and are willfully engaged in aiding guerrillas, to leave the district.) Joshua Owings, Gabriel, Hiram and Hicks George were gueril MBT ĕ HI UFST VOEFS UI F DPN N BOE PG 8 JMJBN 2 VBOUSJM ( BCSJFM ( FPSHF was killed February 22, 1862 at Independence while on a raid with Quantrill. Hiram George (hung by Union soldiers and survived) and )JDLT (FPSHF TVSWJWFE UIF XBS ć F UISFF (FPSHF CPZT XFSF CSPUIFST of Francis Fitzhugh George Moore Kabrick. ć F GPMMPXJOH JT CBTFE PO B MFUUFS XSJUUFO CZ .ST ,BCSJDL PG IFS FYQFSJFODF EVSJOH UIF $JWJM 8BS BOE UIF IBSETIJQT IFS GBNJMZ TVČ FSFE as a result of Order No. 11. Francis George married Ezra Moore in March of 1860. Ezra . PPSF B N FNCFS PG 2 VBOUSJM T HVFSSJMBT XBT LJMFE JO B ĕ HI U XJUI Federal troops west of Pleasant Hill, Missouri in July,1862. When his

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