On August 21, 1863, Quantrill swept down on Lawrence and anything male in revolver range was blasted away. Union General Thomas Ewing countered with his infamous Order Number 11, aimed at the very Missourians who stayed home during the raid. Civilians in four border Counties, including Jackson, were commanded to leave their homes, and so, Ewing thought, deny Confederate Guerillas all aid and comfort. Virtually all homes outside major towns were burnt, the refugees, mainly innocent non-combatants, were robbed and harassed across Western Missouri. Horrified at the carnage, the southern-leaning artist George Caleb Bingham demanded Ewing revoke the Order. Ewing refused.

The fiery artist, in command of not a single troop, threatened the mighty Ewing saying: "If you persist in executing that order, I will make you infamous with the pen and brush as far as I am able." After the war, Bingham buckled down and painted "Order Number 11," a huge canvas portraying a haughty Ewing smugly ignoring abject pleas for mercy amid murder, pillage and destruction. Ewing was the son of a senator and the foster brother of William Tecumseh Sherman; none of these assets daunted Bingham. Whenever Ewing ran for office, Bingham would appear with his monster canvas, drawing crowds like the opening of a new Star Wars movie. Whenever the little artist appeared, support for Ewing crumbled. The strange contest climaxed when a letter by Bingham, circulated after the artist's death, destroyed Ewing's last bid for governor of Ohio.

Provided by John Lehman, 1859 Jail Museum in Independence"

According to information found at Millers Paranormal Research the second photo was...

"scanned from a postcard of a mural painting by Tom Lea and depicts the return of a Confederate family to it's burned and barren farm in the Order #11 area of the Missouri-Kansas border after the Civil War."

Recent news stories reflect the sudden intrest in the Trans-Mississippi area of the War of Yankee Agression. Tourists from the East have developed a sudden intrest in the area as the sequicentiniel anniversary approaches.

The Sunday August 12th edition of the Neosho Daily News reports that...

"NEWTONIA - With the rich Civil War history in Southwest Missouri, a tour group from the East Coast is planning on a possible trip in September 2008.

To get things rolling, Pamplin Historical Park President and Chief Executive Officer A. Wilson Greene has been scouting out the area and stopped to talk to members of the Newtonia Battlefields Protection Association (NBPA) Thursday.

“I am on a seven day whirlwind tour of the four states we call the Trans-Mississippi Theatre of the Civil War to set up a tour itinerary for the members of the Pamplin Historical (program),” Greene said. “This will be a week-long themed itinerary that is not in the Virginia area.”

Everyone knows that tourism equals dollars, and with a devastated economy, thanks to Missouri's neo-con puppet regime, and a political/economic system that reflects Lincoln's "American System", and coupled with a plague called political correctness, that has no room for Confederate history, you can bet that the Freedom's Frontier, will continue to invade Missouri just as the Yankee Puritans and Kansas Jayhawkers did almost 150 years ago.

"Looter's Lane" must be exposed for what it is.

Clint, Missouri Bushwhacker