But the vacation following he spent in bloodily helping to drive the Jayhawkers back across the Kansas line. |
The Briers trailed behind the Jayhawkers, a small band of about thirty young men. |
Missourian guerrillas called Bushwhackers and Kansan Jayhawkers did battle in forests and sacked communities they suspected of betrayal. |
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. |
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. |