Many people are familiar with the Jesse James story. How at the time of the Civil War, along the border between Kansas and Missouri, the conflict was bitter and intense. When many Southern sympathizers in Missouri, the James family among them, were victimized, terrorized, and robbed of all their material possessions in the name of the Union by the Federal militia. Countless small landowners saw their farms, including the James-Samuel farm, raided and their crops burned, their farmhands beaten, their children abused and their womenfolk molested by Federal militiamen.
The James family, often the most outspoken for Southern rights, bore the brunt of these vicious Federal militia raids. Frank, as so many young Southerners did, took up with Quantrill, the fiery guerrilla leader, and Jesse while still in his teens joined the band of William "Bloody Bill" Anderson, to strike back at the North and what they had done to his people.
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More history to learn, Mr. Townsend? I haven't read through half of the books piled
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I have books I will never read as they have been given to me and I have no interest in them. Anyway, I'm just like you with the ones I want to read! :)
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