KU Basketball . By Matt Tait. July 1. 9, 2. 01. Starting Thursday and running through Sunday, Lawrence, Kansas, will become the focal point for college basketball recruiting, with some of the top teams and talents in the country traveling to the Midwest to play in this year’s Hardwood Classic. By Matt Tait Former Kansas star Mario Chalmers on Tuesday found . By Matt Tait Two years after leaving his job at Kansas to advance in the coaching ranks, former KU point guard Aaron Miles is poised to become a head coach. Kansas Vs Missouri: The End Of The Border War Between EritreaIn 1819, the nation contained eleven free and eleven slave states creating a balance in the U.S. Missouri's entrance threatened to throw this parity in favor. The role of Bleeding Kansas in the history of the United States of America. We are now accepting Massachusetts applications online! Use this link to begin the Massachusetts online application process or to login to an existing application. The fall of the Berlin Wall. The shredding of the Iron Curtain. The end of the Cold War. When Mikhail Gorbachev assumed the reins of power in the Soviet Union in 1985. By Matt Tait Big 1. Bob Bowlsby told reporters Monday that he expected to sign a contract extension through the 2. Former Kansas great Paul Pierce, who recently wrapped up a stellar, 1. NBA career, on Monday signed one last pro contract designed to enable him to go out with the team he came in. The history of Kansas, argued historian Carl L. Becker a century ago, reflects American ideals. He wrote: The Kansas spirit is the American spirit double distilled. William Clarke Quantrill was a Confederate guerrilla leader during the American Civil War. After leading a Confederate bushwhacker unit along the Missouri-Kansas. These Last Days Ministries presents Bayside End Times Prophecies of Our Lady of the Roses, Mary Help of Mothers aka Our Lady of Fatima and Jesus to the world through. For half a decade before the Civil War, residents of the neighboring states of Missouri and Kansas waged their own civil war. It was a conflict whose scars were a. By Matt Tait Former Kansas forward Tarik Black is headed back to the NBA team with which he started. As if preparing for four games on Italian soil in early August was not making things busy enough, Kansas coach Bill Self and his staff have been running ragged on the recruiting trail of late. By Matt Tait With practices for their upcoming trip to Italy in full swing, Kansas coach Bill Self and a couple Jayhawk players recently explained the difference between their summertime exhibition routine and the grind that comes with the regular season. By Matt Tait All the whining in the world isn’t going to bring the Border War back to life, but an NCAA tournament bracket has the potential to make it happen as soon as March of 2. By Tom Keegan. If you didn’t know his name, his number or his situation, you might have thought that junior forward Dedric Lawson was preparing for his third or fourth season at Kansas, not his first. By Matt Tait Although he showed up to discuss his team’s upcoming summer trip to Italy, Kansas basketball coach Bill Self couldn’t get through a media session Tuesday afternoon without the subject of the currently dead Border War coming up. By Benton Smith. Although he said he was pleased with the work put in by his entire roster so far this summer, three names came rolling off of Bill Self’s tongue first when the KU coach was asked, before practices for Italy began, which Jayhawks had stood out during summer workouts. By Matt Tait True to the form he showed throughout his one year at Kansas, Josh Jackson has filled up the stat sheet with numbers and the floor with energy and effort, which has led to several good moments and a few bad during his first two NBA Summer League games with the Phoenix Suns. By Matt Tait With 2. NCAA standouts and current NBA rookies De’Aaron Fox, Justin Jackson, Harry Giles and former KU point guard Frank Mason III will be asked to bring a winning culture back to Sacramento during the next few years. America’s Civil War: Missouri and Kansas. More than anywhere else, it was truly a civil war. The first formal military action in Missouri took place less than a month after the April 1. Confederate bombardment of Fort Sumter, S. C. On May 1. 0, Federal troops led by hotheaded Captain Nathaniel Lyon took over at gunpoint the arsenal at Camp Jackson, near St. Lyon’s soldiers brutally fired into a riotous mob of Southern sympathizers, leaving 2. It was an ominous beginning to official hostilities. Three years later, Confederate Maj. Forced to bypass St. Louis because of overwhelming Federal strength there, Price’s troops struggled past Hermann, Boonville, Glasgow, Lexington and Independence before losing an engagement at Westport, now part of Kansas City, and retiring, exhausted, into Arkansas. Westport was the last major Civil War battle west of the Mississippi River, yet it was but one of the 1,1. Missouri during the conflict. Usually subordinated to events east of the Mississippi, these and other western battles became slender chapters in the history of the war. But it is in the footnotes, so to speak, that the true character of the war in Missouri and Kansas is revealed. This dark soul is epitomized by two words: Bushwhackers and Jayhawkers. As a bird, the Jayhawk does not exist; it is as fabulous as the mythological roc. But Jayhawkers were very real, indeed, in the days leading up to the Civil War. A Jayhawker was one of a band of anti- slavery, pro- Union guerrillas coursing about Kansas and Missouri, impelled by substantially more malice than charity. Jayhawkers were undisciplined, unprincipled, occasionally murderous, and always thieving. Indeed, Jayhawking became a widely used synonym for stealing. For all this, Jayhawking carried no social stigma. Some prominent, influential and highly respected leaders were associated with Jayhawking. Among them was James Henry Lane, the self- styled . Another was New England- born Dan Anthony, an ardent abolitionist and the brother of suffragette Susan B. Anthony, who was commemorated a century later by a poorly planned and short lived dollar coin. Probably the most overt Jayhawker of all was Charles R. In truth, Jennison was unique. A runty, consumptive dandy, originally from New York, he practiced medicine briefly in Wisconsin before coming to Kansas to practice the more lucrative trade of horse stealing. For years, the lineage of many good horses in Iowa and Illinois was said to be . He demonstrated this in 1. Missourians caught trying to return fugitive slaves to their masters. Bushwhackers were cut from much the same cloth, but that cloth was butternut instead of blue. Bushwhackers favored the Confederacy. Some Bushwhackers were semi- legitimate soldiers, even grudgingly acknowledged as such by the Confederate Army. Such men as William Quantrill, . Others were simply banditti with a quasi- military excuse for vengeful ambush, robbery, murder, arson and plunder. It was excellent training, as well, for the postwar careers of some survivors. Was there a shortage of money to live on, or to buy horses or food? Horses and food could always be stolen. But cash was in banks, stagecoaches and railroad trains. It did not take the guerrillas long to figure out how it could be liberated for their use. Frank James and his kid brother Jesse, tagging along with Quantrill’s men, turned the knowledge to good account after 1. So did their cousins, Coleman and Jim Younger. It was a fertile training ground for bandits of all stripes. Price and Lyon, Lane and Jennison, Quantrill and Shelby are among the best- remembered names of the conflict. Myriad others, however–slaughtered men, women and children–were the forgotten victims of the undeclared Kansas- Missouri border war that raged in the 1. The perpetrators on both sides were labeled . But ruffians was too kind a term–murderers would have been more accurate. Kansas was the catalyst for the spiraling violence. In 1. 85. 4, Kansas was a territory, sparsely settled but a strong candidate for statehood under provisions of the Kansas- Nebraska Act of 1. At polar political extremes were the abolitionists and pro- slavery Southerners. The former, very strong in New England, detested slavery and wanted Kansas admitted to the Union as a Free State. The Southerners, for their part, feared Yankee domination of Kansas; if its settlers voted it in as a non- slave state, their grip on congressional power would be eroded. They saw a free Kansas as a dire threat to their political, economic and cultural existence. Representatives of both viewpoints rushed to stake property claims and establish voting rights in the contested territory. From slaveholding Missouri came scores, then hundreds of’settlers’ to vote on the vital statehood issue. Slave or Free? Votes were taken and tallied. The answer: Slave. And the voters? Gone, most of them, back to their homes in Missouri. Near Lawrence, Kan., on November 2. Franklin Coleman, a pro- slavery claim- jumper from Missouri, gunned down Charles Dow, a neighboring Free Stater from Ohio, shooting him in the back. Pro- slavery Sheriff Samuel Jones of Westport cynically used the murder as a pretext to arrest Dow’s companion Jacob Branson and gather 1,5. Missouri for an attack on Lawrence. The ensuing . It also spurred the gathering of armed Free Staters in Lawrence under the command of Dr. Charles Robinson. Second in command was . Lane. Two weeks later, Thomas W. Barber, a Free Stater, was murdered near Lawrence by pro- slaver George Clark, and during election violence in January 1. E. P. Brown of Leavenworth was killed in a skirmish as a member of a Free State company attempting to drive ruffians from Leavenworth County. Another unlucky Brown, R. P., was brutally hatcheted in the head the same year. On April 2. 3, Sheriff Jones, still harassing Free Staters under a tenuous guise of legality, was shot and severely wounded, as was Free Stater J. N. Mace five days later. Seeking vengeance, a posse led by Federal Marshal Israel B. Donaldson murdered a Free State boy named Jones and a friend of his near Lawrence on May 1. The youth had been returning home to care for his widowed mother. Free Staters were infuriated by the senseless killing. Violence grew in scale three days later when a band of about 8. Lawrence. Among their leaders was fire- breathing Missouri Senator David Rice Atchison, dubbed . The mob destroyed two local Free State newspaper offices, looted the town of more than $1. Governor Charles Robinson. A particular target was the Free State Hotel, a bastion for Free Staters. Its architecture included exceptionally thick walls and loopholes through which guns could be fired. A 1. 2- pound howitzer was trundled to the hotel. The first shot at the three- story, 8. Staggering Davy Atchison; it sailed over the hotel to a distant hill. The hotel withstood more than 5. Amazingly, the raid produced only two fatalities: a raider who accidentally shot himself, and another ruffian killed by a brick falling from the hotel. Claiming revenge for the raid on Lawrence, fanatic abolitionist John Brown and seven followers shot and hacked five settlers to death near Dutch Henry’s Crossing of Pottawatomie Creek, west of Osawatomie. Brown’s motives may have extended beyond righteous fury at the ruffians’ actions; there is some evidence they included horse theft to redeem his failing financial fortunes. On May 1. 9, 1. 85. Charles Hamelton executed unarmed Free State men near Marais des Cygnes on the Kansas- Missouri border. A native Georgian who had been forced from Kansas into Missouri, Hamelton assembled about 3. Along the way, the band captured 1. Free Staters, some of whom were former neighbors of Hamelton’s and expected no harm from him. The captives were herded into a ravine and shot, first from horseback and then by the dismounted raiders. Five of the 1. 1 victims died, and Hamelton and his men immediately returned to Missouri. The massacre was chronicled by abolitionist writer John Greenleaf Whittier in a poem that appeared in the the September 1. Atlantic Monthly and further inflamed abolitionist sentiment, as Whittier had intended. Such incidents were by no means isolated. Two hundred people died in the border dispute between November 1. December 1. 85. 6 alone. The Civil War was not merely a seamless extension of the agony of . Doc Jennison started it, although he was not around at the end. Ubiquitous Dan Anthony led it for a while. To both friends and foes, it was better known as . On October 2. 8, 1. Kansas was mustered into U. S. The regiment, comprising volunteers from Kansas and nearby states, became part of Jim Lane’s Kansas brigade. Birds of a feather were now flying in formation. Or, more accurately, Jayhawking in cahoots. Jennison referred to his regiment as’self- sustaining,’ which meant simply that every foray into Missouri liberated more supplies than were carried into the state. Contraband seized from Southern sympathizers inevitably included horses, livestock and wagonloads of agricultural products–a minuscule fraction of which found their way to the Federal commissary. Slaves, too, gleefully trooped westward to freedom in Kansas. If other items found their way into the Jayhawkers’ possession–items such as civilian furniture, silverware and money–such was the bitter price of secession. And if a few Secesh homes caught fire along the way, that, too, was the price their owners paid for rebellion. Perhaps the pinnacle of Jennison’s pointless depredation was achieved at Harrisonburg, Mo., where another outfit had looted the depository of the American Bible Society before Doc’s men arrived, leaving only the stock of Bibles. The 7th took the Bibles. Webster Moses, a member of the regiment, wrote to his Illinois sweetheart Nancy about a typical foray near Lone Jack: . Missouri was technically in the Union, and many of the citizens despoiled by the Jayhawkers were loyal Unionists.
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