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Re: Best Union Anti bushwacker unit?

Thanks Don for the quick reply. From what I read Pvt Stevens was just doing his duty by indentifying those persons who were aiding the Bushwackers. The Union forces in Mo already understood what Mao would state decades later that"the guerrilla is a fish that swims among the sea of people"." If one drains the sea one can hinder the guerrilla which was perhaps one of the rationals for Gen. Ewings Order #11. I know that the technique of incarcerating the Woman folk of the Bushwackers or Partisan Rangers if you prefer that term was used by the British aginst the South African Boers about 45 years latter. In a sense what happened in Mo and Kan in the Civil War did not staay in Mo or Kan. One can argue that moderen guerrilla or terrorist warfare statrted in Kan and Mo and then took root with various modifications in other countries over the years.

I know some Union Gens considered the Kansas regiments more of a hinderence to the Union cause then a help. We all know the story of how the jayhawkers turned the Younger family from pro Union to anti Union and thats why Cole Younger and other simillarly situated young men joined the Bushwackers. I just wanted to get different insights on a controversial area of history. In Mo has elsewhere in this wounderfull world has the old saying go's "One mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter"

Leonard Unger

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