Missouri/Kansas Border War Network

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This podcast explores the background of planning by Union commanders in the summer of 1863 to control guerrilla activity on the Missouri/Kansas border by banishing families known to support them to areas south of Missouri. This provides a look at Orders No. 9 and 10 and argues that the sacking of Lawrence on Aug. 21, 1863 was an excuse to issue Orders No. 11.

About the Author

Gilmore holds BA and MA degrees in English and is retired as an editor for the Staff and Command College in Leavenworth. In recent years he has published articles such as “Revenge in Kansas, 1863” in History Today, 1993; “Total War on the Missouri Border” in Journal of the West, 1996; “Showdown at Northfield” in Wild West, 1996; and “When the James Gang Ruled the Rails” Wild West, 2000. His books include Eyewitness Vietnam: From Rolling Thunder to the Fall of Saigon 2006; U.S. Army Atlas of the European Theater in World War II, 2005; and Civil War on the Missouri Kansas Border, 2005.