College Gameday just did a little short about the history of the border war and conveniently left out the fact that the fight was over slavery. They called it a “border dispute”
“Give the kansas people a taste of what the Missourian has suffered at the hands of the kansas jayhawker. Kill, kill, kill & you will make no mistake.”
-William C. Quantrill, August 1863.
Gen. Eliah Drinkwitz—
I write to grant you a chance to withdraw as you did in ‘22 at the Battle of Liberty.
Your unit once rode into Lawrence, torch in hand. Kansas has since risen from those ashes, and we ride east with conviction.
The Jayhawks are coming
—Gen. Lance Leipold