During the war, he learned the guerrilla tactics of the bushwhackers, jayhawkers and other insurgency groups who tried, by any means, to halt the progress of Union forces. |
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Missourian guerrillas called Bushwhackers and Kansan Jayhawkers did battle in forests and sacked communities they suspected of betrayal. |
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Lane and his Kansas Jayhawkers and Quantrill and his Raiders, including the James and the Younger brothers, that the modern law of war was born. |
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The Briers trailed behind the Jayhawkers, a small band of about thirty young men. |
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