GENERAL ORDER #11

Issued on Aug 25, 1863


Many of our investigations include the counties of Cass, Bates, Henry and Jackson Counties in Missouri. We have found that allot of paranormal activity in these counties is directly associated with the effects caused by General Order #11 on these communities.


The top photo is of a painting by George Caleb Bingham, titled "Marshall Law-General Order #11". This painting depicts the effect of General Order #11 in a graphic detail. The background shows the smoke and fire from the burning and the wagons of people leaving. In the foreground, women plead for the lives of their sons and husbands or are lying over their dead bodies overcome with grief. Mr. Bingham also shows the looting as we see the Jayhawkers throwing household goods from the windows of the building.


The photograph below was scanned from a postcard of a mural painting by Tom Lea and depicts the return of a Confederate family to it's burned and barren farm in the Order #11 area of the Missouri-Kansas border after the Civil War.






General Order #11-8/25/1863-

Signed by

Union Brigadier General Thomas Ewing, Jr.

 


First: All persons living in Cass, Jackson, and Bates counties, and in that part of Vernon county within the District, with the exception of those residing within one mile of Union-held towns and except those in that part of Kaw Township, Jackson county, north of Brush Creek and west of the Big Blue River, embracing Kansas City and Westport, are hereby ordered to move from their present places of residence within 15 days. Those who within that time establish their loyalty to the satisfaction of the commanding officer of the military station nearest their present place of residence, will received from him certificates stating that facts of their loyalty and the names by whom it can be shown. All who receive such certificates will be permitted to remove to any military station in this district or to any part of the state of Kansas, except all the counties on the eastern border of the state. All others shall remain out of the district.


Second: all grain or hay in the fields or under shelter in the District from which the inhabitants are required to move within reach of military stations, after the ninth of September will be taken to such stations and turned over to the proper officers there; and report of the amount so turned over made to the district headquarters specifying the names of all loyal owners and the amount of such produce taken from them. All grain and hay found in such district after the ninth of September next, not removed to such stations will be destroyed.

 

 

Missouri and The Civil War

The Border War  (Charles Jennison, Jim Lane, James Montgomery)

William T "Bloody Bill" Anderson (Guerilla leader)

William Clarke Quantrill (Guerilla leader)

The Younger Family (Cole, Jim, Bob & John: Guerillas & Outlaws)

The James Family (Frank and Jesse: Guerillas & Outlaws)