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The sacking of Osceola was a Kansas Jayhawker initiative on September 23, 1861, to push out pro-slavery Southerners at Osceola, Missouri. It was not authorized by Union military authorities but was the work of an informal group of anti-slavery Kansas "Jayhawkers". [ 2 ]
Osceola is a city in and the county seat of St. Clair County, Missouri, United States. [4] The population was 909 at the 2020 census . [ 5 ] During the American Civil War , Osceola was the site of the Sacking of Osceola .
William Tell Johnson was born on August 4, 1848, in Osceola, Missouri, to Emily (née Moore) and Waldo P. Johnson. His father was a U.S. Senator, member of the Confederate States Senate and advisor to Jefferson Davis. [1] [2] [3] He studied at private and grammar schools in Hamilton, Ontario.
William Weer (a.k.a. William A. Weer [2] and William Weir [3]) was a lawyer, attorney general for Kansas and an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War.He is notable for his service in the Trans-Mississippi Theater early in the war and later for being dismissed from the army following a court-martial.
Seaton, a longtime Kansas newspaper publisher who served as the Pulitzer Prize Board's chair and advocated for international press freedom, died of natural causes Monday night, Dec. 26, 2022, at ...
Image: A tribute to Joan Meyer, the late 98-year-old co-owner of the Marion County Record, sits outside the weekly newspaper's office, on Aug. 11, 2023, in Marion, Kan. (John Hanna / AP)