Bloody Dawn: The Story of the Lawrence Massacre

In the early morning of August 21, 1863 four hundred horsemen rode into the undefended town of Lawrence, Kansas.Â By the time they left, four hours later, over 150 men and boys had been murdered, the town had been looted and much of it burned to the ground.

In Bloody Dawn, Thomas Goodrich tells this story in vivid, sometimes horrifying detail and sets it in the context of the Kansas/Missouri border wars that raged before and during the US Civil War.

The attack on Lawrence was cold blooded murder, a brilliant military raid and, for the people of western Missouri, sweet revenge.

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Charles T. Aug 9, 2009, 5:48pm UTC

Missouri was the worst theater of a very bloody war and even by the fratricidal standards of the southern guerrilla wars between unionists and secessionists, was truly horrible.

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Bloody Dawn: The Story of the Lawrence Massacre

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