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Title: The Westport Police Guard in the Civil War
Description: Article about the Westport Police Guard, an organization of citizens to protect their homes during guerrilla raids as a result of being evicted from their homes, according to Order Number 11.
Date: 1971-09
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Reminiscences of the Women of Missouri during the Sixties
Description: Stories of terrorizing of Missouri women by military men from both sides: "Jayhawkers" and "Bushwhackers" during the war.
Date: 1920~/1929~
Object Type: Book

Title: Welcoming "Pa" on the Kaw: Kansas's "Colored" Militia and the 1864 Price Raid
Description: Article gives a history of the African American militia units in Kansas raised during the Civil War. It details those "colored" units that fought in the Battle of Westport and the battles in this area leading up to it. Article is illustrated with photographs and includes footnotes.
Date: 2002
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Shelby and His Men: Or the War in the West
Description: Account of the Battle of Westport by the author, one of Confederate General Joseph Shelby's soldiers for the Confederates.
Date: 1867
Object Type: Book