archie clemmon is here in texas. they come back in the spring of 1865 defining that formal civil war is over and that there is a domestic reconstruction beginning in missouri. now, missouri goes ahead of the union and is a republican government, the republican party is created by the war, almost non-existent in 1860. but the strongest unionists, the ones in the malitia movement, those in the most active become republican. so they met and carry out state emancipation. they, again, are not covered by part of the union confederacy. and later on when the reconstruction acts are not passed, it does not cover missouri. so they enact what is called the ironclad oath where you have to swear that you did not do one of 86 different acts of disloyalty in order to vote, preach the gospel, be a corporation officer, to serve on juries, et cetera. there is a sort of soft conservative unionist movement. they are reunionists but not so strong of unionunionists. they are called radicals, but we shouldn't refuse them with the radical r

his name was archie clemmon, though he was a teenager himself, frankly became jesse's mentor and close friend. jesse james in 1864 at the age of 16 joins the guerrillas, and what does he do? do they ambush union troops? are they fighting against jayhawkers? no. no, they go door to door and murder eight farmers who were not engaged in combat who were killed eight farmers who were at home and found in the field in case they found the unionist farm in the field and they told the widow that they killed him. in short order, jesse james takes part in killing eight men. he was part of the desk squad of clay county. as a result of this action, again, there was a pursuit by the local marshall who was at the time, the militia commander, fletch taylor and jesse james in the group ambushed them and managed to wound the captain kemper, leader of that group and it was a combination of actual combat between troops and also warfare on the population. after this, jesse james, fletch taylor takeses a shotgun to the arm and he loses one of his arms and jesse james and fletch taylor ride to join a man nam