Sandra, I thought I was giving you two sources, but one was an abbreviated one of the first source. Here is the second source, out of the Military Review, the U.S. Army's professional journal: Don R. Bowen, “Quantrill, James, Younger, et al.: Leadership in a Guerrilla Movement, Missouri, 1861-1865,” Military Affairs 41, no. 1 (February 1977): 42.

Yes, the first-mentioned source is out of a journal, and your librarian can probably obtain it for you. Dr. Jerry Brown, a professor at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth obtained my copy for me, when he saved it after reading it. He thought it might interest me. I thought it was dynamite, and so do some of the members of the website. It's revolutionary. But it all fits. When you know, for instance, that the James boys father was one of the founders of William Jewell College and possessed a Masters degree in divinity at a time when most people had grade school educations, and that the Youngers (Cole and Jim's father) were some of the wealthiest and most influential people in western Missouri (Charles Younger, an uncle, was the wealthiest person in the Jackson county census of 1860), then, you know that many of the guerrillas, actually most, came from prominent slave-owning families, WITH SOME EXCEPTIONS, which were also the people worth the most money. Slaves were very expensive, in today's money worth over $10-15,000 dollars a piece. So a wealthy slave owner could own human chattel worth over a million dollars easily. So when people crossed over from Kansas and began raiding their plantations of their labor supply, burning their homes, and killing some of them, it naturally caused a great deal of dislocation and antagonism. Many of the people committing these moral crimes were Union soldiers. One of them was Lietenant Colonel Dan Anthony, the suffragettes brother, who later became the mayor of Leavenworth, Jennison held political office after the war also (you know, the head of the Jayhawkers), and Henry Hoyt who was involved in a conspiracy to break John Brown out of prison in Virginia, an act of treason against the United States government, became Kansas' postwar attorney general. I'm not knocking Kansans, I'm just telling the verifiable truth about our history. Those that want to hear it, fine, if not, stay out of the kitchen, as Harry Truman said about those that can't handle the heat. We need to see our history for what it was, not how we would like it to have been. Thanks again, for your interest.

Don G.