Sacking of Osceola | |
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Part of American Civil War | |
Location | Osceola, Missouri |
Date | September 23, 1861 |
Target | Citizens of Osceola |
Attack type | War crime, looting, extrajudicial killings of civilians, state-sponsored terrorism |
Deaths | 9[1] |
Perpetrators | Pro-Union Jayhawkers |
The sacking of Osceola was a Kansas Jayhawker initiative on September 23, 1861, to push out pro-slavery Southerners at Osceola, Missouri. It was not authorized by Union military authorities but was the work of an informal group of anti-slavery Kansas "Jayhawkers".[2] The town of 2,077 people was plundered and burned to the ground, 200 slaves were freed and nine local citizens were court-martialed and executed.[3]
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