Civil War Podcast, Episode 414

THE LAWRENCE MASSACRE (Part the First)

James Henry Lane (1833-1907)

In which we look at the violence that wracked the Kansas/Missouri border after the start of the Civil War, and set the stage for the Lawrence (KS) Massacre, which happened in August 1863.

Our book recommendation for this episode is “Black Flag: Guerrilla Warfare on the Western Border, 1861-1865” by Thomas Goodrich