![]() ![]() When the war started, the 21-year-old Bill appeared to be running a business in stolen horses with his younger brother Jim. ![]() The Jayhawkers typically had access to Union arms and supplies while the guerrillas depended on foraging and the support of pro-secession families.īill Anderson arrived in Kansas as a child in 1857 along with his Southern parents, two brothers, and three sisters. By the time the war started, Missouri’s pro-rebel guerrillas were known as “Bushwackers,” while their pro-Federal counterparts in Kansas were known as “Jayhawkers” or “Redlegs” from their preference for red pants as a type of uniform. Fueling this conflict was a dispute over whether Kansas should be a slave-holding state or not. A low-level conflict had already been raging in the Missouri-Kansas borderlands in the years preceding the outbreak of the Civil War. ![]()
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