Harrisonville, Missouri - General Order No 11 Burnt District Mural

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This is one of the many reasons the War is more accurately called, "The War of Northern Aggression" or "Lincoln's War on Americans." This General Order No. 11 mural in Harrisonville, Missouri, is a historical marker commemorating the Union Army directive issued during the War to force residents out of their own homes and destroy their homes across 4 entire counties. Located at the intersection of Lexington Street and Pearl Street, just north of the Courthouse Square in Harrisonville, Cass County, the mural was erected in 2010 by the Cass County Historical Society.

General Order No. 11, issued on August 25, 1863, by Union General Thomas Ewing Jr., mandated the forced evacuation of rural residents from Jackson, Cass, Bates, and parts of Vernon counties in western Missouri. It required and forced all residents, regardless of loyalty, to leave their homes within 15 days. The order led to widespread displacement, looting, burning, suffering, property destruction, and the creation of the “Burnt District,” with an estimated 20,000 people affected. A monument in the area features a chimney because that's all that could be seen in the area after the houses were burned down. Union soldiers even kicked elderly sick citizens out of their own homes and forced them to burn their own homes down. Imagine the Government/military doing that today!!!
Here's the mural in Historical Marker Database... https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=50871
The nearby Burnt District (Chimney) monument: https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=20318
Read the following story on this historical marker...
"Cole Younger related what happened to his mother, Bursheba: "On the day the Federals came to execute Order No. 11, my mother was bedfast, weak, worn and sick. The captain in charge said, 'Mrs. Younger, why haven't you complied with order No. 11?' My mother said, 'I am sick; I have no place to go and it is serious impossible for me to leave.' 'Mrs. Younger, you refuse to obey. We are going to burn your buildings.' She pleaded with them and asked to stay the night. They said that she must burn the buildings herself in the morning. She agreed. On the following day she set it afire with her own hands."




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