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Spring's Kansas

Spring's Kansas 1885, revised 1906
Page 275-276

Lane took the field on the 10th "with a smart little army of about fifteen hundred men" -- reached Westport, Missouri, four days later, where he reported -- "Yesterday I cleaned out Butler and Parkville with my cavalry." September 22d he sacked and burned Osceola, Missouri -- an enterprise in which large amounts of property and a score of inhabitants were sacrificed. He broke camp on the 27th, and in two days reached Kansas City. The brigade converted the Missouri border through which the march lay into a wilderness, and reached its destination heavily encumbered with plunder. "everything disloyal," said Lane, ".... must be cleaned out," and never were orders more literally or cheerfully obeyed. Even the chaplain succumbed to the rampant spirit of thievery, and plundered Confederate altars in the interest of his unfinished church at home. Among the spoils that fell to Lane personally there was a fine carriage, which he brought to Lawrence for the use of his household.

This is word for word, no "shanghai chicken..."

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Everything Disloyal from a Shanghai Rooster....
Shanghai Chicken Speech, and Jennison
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So if Jennison was the first to use...
Still one more avenue of research
Spring's Kansas
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Blackmar's Life of Robinson
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Relationship to Bingham's Order No. 11