Missouri 2008 Official Vacation Planner - (Page 32) KCCVA Civil War Museum in Carthage, with Andy Thomas’ battle mural John Brown with Bible in one hand and rifle in the other, in a second floor mural at the Topeka Capitol. Lecompton, a quiet town between Topeka and Lawrence, was founded in 1854 by proslavery Missourians, who made it the Kansas territorial capital. The partially completed statehouse still stands, as does Constitution Hall where the proslavery Lecompton Constitution was written in 1857. The John Brown Museum in Osawatomie encases a cabin where the abolitionist often visited family members during the Border War. Quantrill’s Civil War raid on Lawrence killed upwards of 200 townspeople and destroyed most of the town. The visitor center at Lawrence’s restored Union Pacific Depot has maps for self-guided tours of Quantrill’s destructive path. The Hobbs Park Memorial honors Lawrence’s abolitionist roots and post-massacre rebuilding. In 1858, Missouri Bushwhackers opened fire on 11 unarmed free-soilers near the Marais des Cygnes River, killing five. The massacre site is just north of Pleasanton, in Linn County. The U.S. Army post at Fort Scott, now a national historic site, 32 Missouri Vacation Planner 2008 S O W E N T T H E B O R D E R WA R , A GUERRILLA CONFLICT OF CROSS-BORDER R A I D S , A B D U C T I O N S , T H I E V E R Y, A R S O N A N D M U R D E R . N E W S PA P E R S C A L L E D I T “BLEEDING KANSAS.” was a staging area for pillaging raids into Missouri by Kansas regiments during the Civil War. Battles and Burials Civil War battle sites are located in Lexington, Kansas City, Lone Jack, Carthage, Newtonia and Republic in Missouri; and at Mine Creek, near Pleasanton, Kan. National cemeteries in Springfield, Mo., and Ft. Scott, Kan., hold the remains of both Confederate and Union veterans. The Forest Hill Cemetery in Kansas City contains the gravesite of Confederate Gen. Joseph Shelby and at least 20 of his cavalrymen. The city’s Elmwood Cemetery is the reputed resting place of Jesse James’ wife and of a sister of Bushwhacker Cole Younger. Top, right: Union Gen. Thomas Ewing issued his infamous Order No. 11 outside the Pacific House in Kansas City. PHOTO: KANSAS CITY CONVENTION AND VISITORS ASSOCIATION Middle, right: The Bushwhacker Jail building in Nevada survived the burning of the town in 1863. PHOTO: GEORGE DENNISTON Bottom, right: Outside the little house in St. Joseph where a fellow outlaw killed Jesse James in 1882
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