Four women accused of collaborating with guerrilla leaders die when their temporary prison on Grand south of 14th Street collapses. The guerrillas are infuriated. William Quantrill leads 450 mounted guerrillas into Lawrence, Kan., where they kill 150 men and boys, loot and burn the city and return to Missouri. Gen. Thomas Ewing, district commander, issues his General Order No. 11 for residents along the border to evacuate. He hopes to end support guerrillas have received from them.
Anger is great among the exiles.
Missouri artist George Caleb Bingham creates his famed propaganda painting and depicts Ewing on horseback in it. If he succeeded, his reasoning went, the Union would have to bring reinforcements from the east to help fight him. It loses at least a thousand men in an ill-conceived assault on a fort at Pilot Knob and finds St. Louis too strongly defended. The army turns west toward Jefferson City, finds it too strong and sets out to attack Kansas City and Fort Leavenworth. Union troops mustered from Kansas and Missouri await Price's arrival in Jackson County and other Union forces chased the Confederates from behind.