G.A. Parsons

This dispatch, dated December 8, 1860, is from G.A. Parsons, Adjutant General of the Missouri Militia, to Missouri Gov. Robert M. Stewart. Parsons reports that a “band of marauders of Kansas Territory” murdered a Missouri citizen for capturing a fugitive slave. The 300 mounted and armed marauders, under the command of James Montgomery and Charles Jennison, have also captured slaves and threatened the lives of Missouri citizens. Parsons asks Stewart to send troops to the border to protect citizens “threatened with arson plunder and death.”

December 8, 1860

African Americans
Guerrillas
Jayhawkers
Bleeding Kansas, Bloodletting Missouri

G.A. Parsons
James Montgomery
Charles R Jennison

Bourbon County, Kansas
Linn County, Kansas
Bates County, Missouri
Vernon County, Missouri

Missouri State Archives

Missouri-Kansas Border Collection; Office of the Secretary of State, RG005: Box 2, Folder 31

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