After the secessionist Missouri State Guard's victory at Lexington, former Senator (and now General) David Rice Atchison led Missouri State Guardsmen on an attack against Liberty, Missouri.
Early in the Civil War, this federal arsenal located near Liberty, Missouri fell to a group of Southern sympathizers in what has been called the "Fort Sumter of Missouri."
Former Confederate bushwhackers, probably led by Archie Clement, Cole Younger, and Frank James, conduct an armed bank robbery on the Clay County Savings Association in Liberty, Missouri.
