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In a conflict that staged over ten thousand fights, Virginia led as a theater of war. The Volunteer State of Tennessee, second. What surprises many is that the third most active theater in the American Civil War was the border state of Missouri, a slaveholding state that remained within the Union.

There, the curtain for violence rose long before Confederate forces openfired on Fort Sumter. Indeed, on any night from 1855 until the summer of 1865, an attack on any town or settlement in Missouri or across the border in Kansas could strike like a bolt of lightning from a clear blue sky. In both states, lingering ill will and vicious fighting erased the line between civilian and soldier, armed violence with Old Testament vengeance and fury. In short, the worst guerilla war in American history.

And now, the uncivil border war between Kansas and Missouri.

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Narrated by Fred Kiger
Produced by Dan Irving
Published by Third Wheel Media

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Some Characters Mentioned In This Episode:
Charles "Doc" Jennison
James Henry Lane
James Montgomery
William Clarke Quantrill
Frank James
Thomas Ewing, Jr.
William "Bloody Bill" Anderson