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PatrickforB

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15. Cool. My great, great uncle was in the Missouri 5th Militia Cavalry, which saw heavy action throughout the

Reply to Clouds Passing (Reply #14)

Thu Jul 25, 2024, 05:19 PM

Jul 2024

war, and my great-great grandfather was in the 2nd Missouri Militia after they got all the Confederate sympathizers out of there.

My guys were in Warrensburg in Johnson County, so they were in the border war that began in 1858 and fought right through the end. But lawlessness continued in MO through the 1870s.

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