1902
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Lane with his brigade reached Westport, Missouri, September, 1861, when he reported that " Yesterday I cleared out Butler and Parkville with my cavalry." 1 On September 22d he sacked and burned Osceola, Missouri. He returned on the 27th, and in two days reached Kansas City.
The brigade turned the Missouri border through which the march lay into a wilderness, and reached its destination heavily laden with plunder. " Everything disloyal," said Lane, " . . . must be cleaned out." ^ever 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 which fell to Lane personally was a fine carriage, which he brought to Lawrence for the rise of his household."

Sound familiar? He does reference Spring, page 276