JESSE JAMES AND MISSOURI

Jesse James, Frank James, Cole Younger, Bill Anderson, and other bushwhackers and outlaws, were all part of William Quantrill's band of Missouri-based , Confederate irregulars, who burned down Lawrence, Kansas, in August 1863, killing 200 men in a predawn raid, resulting in Field Order # 11, by Col. Ewing, ordering the evacuation of 4 Missouri counties, bordering Kansas. Those counties were Platte, Jackson, Cass, and Bates where many irregular Confederate sympathizers lived, supplied, recruited.