n 1856 john browne, his sons and followers but effectively that cleared the area of southern sellers. and was complicated but they were not slaveholders. so there was a lot of mixed view around the nation. but to set the tone for what the kansas was a reporter would become. it would ride to new heights in 1863.

leading a band of people across the river which was the second largest city and topeka was the capital but the anti-slavery capital was the delinquent stronghold where so many of the orders came from that would wreak havoc in western missouri. so coming into of lawrence they hold down for hours. 150 men and boys were killed they could have killed every man a woman and child. they had that much control but the town was effectively and literally destroyed.

it was a cloud of smoke that could be seen over 38 counties like an atomic bomb had gone off. that was from order number 11 that pretty much decimated western missouri and put 25,000 people off of their land. it was horrific no matter what side you were on. was terrific. when the civil war finally came to the rest of the nation kansas had a head start. there were some notable contributions that they make to the war effort but per-capita we send more soldiers than any of their state and we actually raised the first black regiment to fight in this civil war. their service is remarkable

on so many counts. they fight to be for the "emancipation proclamation" is issued with the promise of nothing. nothing. they're not fighting with the promise of their freedom , they are not fighting with the promise of even being paid. nothing. except hope. following the civil war it is interesting to note there were survivors in reunions for many years. of perpetrators also had reunions on the of the azeri side and that is just one

day example of how the feelings did not die when the war was over. there is still a lot of animosity now it plays out on the sports events painfully but that has died hard one thing that is important to remember is specially order number 11 where the federal's they created a militarized zone trying to create demilitarized zone said the guerrillas would have a safe haven and effectively he cleans out three and a half border counties of western missouri. had he included kansas the eastern kansas counties or had done things differently the result might have been

different but those federal soldiers misery sees that as a federal government but also kansas. that dies hard truman is the most famous example with his grandmother would not let him in that house because she still saw that was a yankee and who famously would not sleep in though lincoln room at the white house and a comment when they would sit down to dinner that some family in kansas was using their great china and silverware but a good example to show how those feelings have not died i was researching and cable across a newspaper 1856, the "london times". the front page had the

headline the eyes of the world were literally on kansas and that territorial period was so significant to shape the war to come and it cannot be overestimated but it is overshadowed because of the big battles like gettysburg and fredericksburg and the incredibly big battles that overshadow how cans is truly defined the issues, what we would become civil war is about who inherits the mantle of the revolution who gets that? north or south? kansas. it is all hammered out here. they define it after the