The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-07-12
BORDER WARFARE'S
TRAGIC CRUELTY
story Of Josephinc Anderson. Child
Martyr, Killed In Collapse OF Pris
on-Plot to Murder Women.

few months ago. Professor Hal
bert. of Montgomery. suggested 10 the
writer subject that has proven
worthy Of research. for the statements
herein recorded have been verified by
witnesses and participants yet living.
This tragic story Of border warfare
has never been brought TO general
public notice. and we would that an
lbsen or Hugo could realize It. 4
Poe or a CoIeridge might have seized
upon the theme fer a ballad OF heroes.
Though we now chronicle IL. we have
recoilcd from its treatment: we have
taken il in our hands lightly as IL II
we're sphere that would roll away
from us: we have felt all around its
surface: we have hesitated 10 plunge
into the heart OF 1t; yet the Daugh-
ters OF the Confederacy must preserve
in detail even the shocking incidents
of those terrible years, however
srewsomc the task, we have no light
for futurity save the lamp of expe-
rience
the undermining of the military prison
in which women were incarcerated. re-
suited in the raid upon Lawrence by
ouantrclrs Rand. OF which Josephine
Andeisons' brother was member.
causing live days later the issuance of
the infamous and outrageous Order
No. IL by the Federal government. au-
thorizing the conflscation of the prop
erty of Confederate soldiers and SYM
pathiZers
DEPTHS OF CRUELTY
REACHED By RUFFIANS
When the Kansas hordes of Lane.
Hort and Jennison, captain OF the no.
torious Kansas Red Legs, came over
the border from Kansas in 1851, they
found Missouri not particularly hostile
to the Union, having made no special
arrangements for defense. but the
depths OF cruelty to which the border
rufians sunk in their treatment OF
INTO irregular organizations. called by
the kansans guerillas or bush whack-
ers. This sobriquet came from the
fact that these defenders of home and
family generally mere lads) were
driven TO hide in the timber and brush
on account of their weakness and in
experience. These young sons and
owners Of the soil were compelled to
protect by fair means or foul the help
less women and children of those men
fighting some for the North, some for
the South. Al honor to the guerillas
who dared to defy such men as Jenni-
son. who had armed runaway and
stolen negroes and then turned them,
an irresponsible and emotional people.
10 overrun Missouris peace bought
soil. These bush whackers were shot
down. hanged, burial by friends often
peiis ueHieu. 10 De mace prlSoners
was kindness not often accorded
them. Bill Anderson. Cole. Vaughan,
Younger, Quantrall and their men
could not go South and join General
Price, the beloved odd Pap" of the
Missourians for If they did so. the
women and children would be left 10
the tender mercies of a degenerate
horde. But the women did suffer de
spite this effort of husbands. brothers
and sons. Many a Missouri woman
from the Kaw to the Arkansas line,
Knew the helpless sinking of all hopes
as the iron door swung to at Fort
LearenWorth. Kan, or the Military
fison, at jefferson City. Mo-. and the
Prison, ut Kansas City. Mo.
IT is of the helpless women, mere chill
drer. in tho latter prison, we now
relate
IN the summer OF 1868. sorrowful
little procession wound along the dus-
~ road TO Kansas city, az small band
of women. ten in number. all under
twenty years of age. guarded by blue
coats. their destination. the women's
prison, located where now stands NVaR-
ner's undertaking place. an appropri-
ate successor to the grcwsome
spot OF this tale. Within this bastile
these girls huddled upon mattress
during the sultry August nights await
knew not what. At the same
time. Mrs. Cal Jennison, at Fort Leav-
where this company sported stolen I'm
cry, plundered from Missouri. At these
gatherings, atrocities and cruelties
were planned, for were not Josephine
Molly and jamie Anderson. aged four
teen. sixteen and ten, respectively, tho
sisters OF the much hunted and despcr-