mr. stiles: i ran across this at another time. the first time that harry truman in the 20th century makes a trip into kansas, his grandmother says, look for the spoons that bj hawkers stole. -- that the jayhawkers stall. -- stole. >> i heard they were part of that group. mr. stiles: they were in jackson county, i believe. that is certainly where he was from personally. they might have been uprooted. the depopulation did not last long because it was such a radical policy, the union decided, ok, you got to let them go back. if they had kept them out, it might have tamped down the guerrilla warfare. i will take the next question behind a cause you have been waiting longer. >> it struck me as this was almost genocidal in intense. -- in intent. do think that's an accurate way of describing guerrilla warfare, at least semi-genocidal? mr. stiles: genocide is tough. that usually means targeting a specific group for extermination. we have the term ethnic cleansing and i use the term political cleansing. they are not necessarily trying to m