An interesting thing about Missouri...

Several southern University nicknames have ties to the Civil War Between the States.

Mizzou is no exception. Yet while Missouri's history during the war is most notable for Quantrill, Bloody Bill Anderson, the James Brothers who were all confederates...

The Missouri "Tigers" were named after a Union militia that organized around Columbia to protect the city from those guys after they burned down Lawrence, KS.

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Posted by mouse_cop

The South

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Posted on 10/22/21 at 2:09 pm to Gunga Din

Quantrill did nothing wrong

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Posted by ScoggDog

SE Indiana

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Posted on 10/22/21 at 2:13 pm to Gunga Din

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Yet while Missouri's history during the war is most notable for Quantrill, Bloody Bill Anderson, the James Brothers who were all confederates...

The premise for the greatest film in Western Cinematography - The Outlaw Josey Wales.

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Posted by BreakawayZou83

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Posted on 10/22/21 at 2:15 pm to Gunga Din

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Mizzou is no exception. Yet while Missouri's history during the war is most notable for Quantrill, Bloody Bill Anderson, the James Brothers who were all confederates...

The Missouri "Tigers" were named after a Union militia that organized around Columbia to protect the city from those guys after they burned down Lawrence, KS.

Missouri having a bit of an identity crisis is not a recent phenomenon. The western side of the state never really recovered after Order No. 11 when the Union came in and literally burnt everything along the border to the ground to stop the violence between the two sides - often neighbors going at each other.

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