this showed up in "lonesome dove 2," by the way. this group of raiders were pro-southern confederates who would write into a village in missouri on horseback with a gun in each hand, and they would shoot from both sides, and then they would ride out of town before anyone could shoot act. the unionists in missouri hated these guys like poison, because it was not fair. if you are going to engage in war, engage in war, but don't come into town and shoot the place up kill whoever happens to be on the street, and ride out again. that is just not fair. this is one of the reasons why the army in missouri cleans out a couple of places in missouri and they want to stop this. but the other thing that is interesting about missouri during the war is the air are's -- that there is such tension while it is considered a union state, it does end up on the confederate flag, but this war going on rewrites the constitution called the drake constitution. the drake constitution was known as the code in constitution by his opponent, and it was written by