j. John N. Edwards, in his _Noted Guerrillas,_ says:

"Cole Younger saved at least a dozen lives this day. Indeed, he killed
none save in open and manly battle. At one house he captured five
citizens over whom he put a guard and at another three whom he defended
and protected. The notorious Gen. James H. Lane, to get whom Quantrell
would gladly have left and sacrificed all the balance of the victims, made
his escape through a corn-field, hotly pursued but too splendidly mounted
to be captured."

My second lieutenant, Lon Railey, and a detachment gave Jim Lane a hot
chase that day but in vain.

When I joined Brother-in-law Jarrette's company, he said:

"Cole, your mother and your sister told me to take care of you."

That day it was reversed. Coming out of Lawrence his horse was shot under
him. He took the saddle off and tried to put it on a mustang that one of
the boys was leading. Some of the boys say he had $8,000 in the saddle
bags for the benefit of the widows and orphans of Missouri, but whether
that is true or not I have no knowledge. While he was trying to saddle
the mustang, he was nearly surrounded by the enemy. I dashed back and
made him get up behind me. The saddle was left for the Kansas men.

One of the treasures that we did bring out of Lawrence that day, however,
was Jim Lane's "black flag," with the inscription "Presented to Gen. James
H. Lane by the ladies of Leavenworth".

That is the only black flag that I knew anything about in connection with
the Lawrence raid.

Lawrence was followed by a feverish demand from the North for vengeance.
Quantrell was to be hanged, drawn and quartered, his band annihilated;
nothing was too terrible for his punishment.

Four days after the raid, Gen. Thomas Ewing at St. Louis issued his
celebrated General Order No. 11. This required that all persons living in
Jackson, Cass and Bates counties, except one township, or within one mile
of a military post, should remove within fifteen days. Those establishing
their loyalty were permitted to go within the lines of any military post,
or to Kansas, but all others were to remove without the bounds of the
military district. All grain and hay in the proscribed district was to be
turned into the military post before Sept. 9, and any grain or hay not so
turned in was to be destroyed.

It was the depopulation of western Missouri. Any citizen not within the
limits of the military post after Sept. 9 was regarded a