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a civil war descended on the United States in April 18 61. Kansas, which had achieved statehood only three months before, was threatened by armed secessionists in Missouri. Although the federal government placed no requisition on Kansas for troops, Kansas Governor Charles Robinson nonetheless tendered to regimens for military service. These regiments joined the union forces a brigadier general, Nathaniel Lyon, in his pursuit of the secessionist Missouri state Guard, thus effectively denude in Kansas of troops. Into this vacuum step James Henry Lane, who had received authority directly from President Abraham Lincoln to raise in command to volunteer regimens. Lane would come to command three regiments, which he called the Kansas Brigade, more popularly known as Lanes Brigade, the brigade operated along Missouri's western border, putting into practice lanes belief that the best place to defend Kansas was from within Missouri and that the best way to crush the rebellion was to destroy slavery. In its brief existence, the brigade would fight one pitched battle and numerous skirmishes, liberate hundreds of slaves and join Major General John C. Freeman's October 18 61 campaign against the Missouri State Guard. In its various marches, the brigade seized private property sometimes to deprive the enemy of its use, sometimes as a punitive measure and sometimes merely tow line the pockets of its soldiers. The brigade also burned large portions of four towns and murdered under the guise of a drumhead court martial. Six men. The brigade was hailed both as the savior of Kansas and the terror of Missouri. Although operating in the backwater of the far Western frontier, the brigade and especially Lane, garnered national praise as heroic victors. However, the admiration was not universal. Major General Henry W. Helicke, commander of the department of the Missouri, which standing Compass, Kansas, despise Ling Helicke, asserted, The conduct of our troops during the Fremont campaign, and especially the course pursued by those under Lane and Charles are Jenison has turned against us many thousands who were formerly union men. A few more such raids in connection with the ultra speeches made by leading men in Congress will make Missouri as unanimous against us as Eastern Virginia Hala Queen that various outrages in Missouri had been committed by three classes of persons rebel guerrillas, a segment of the federal volunteer troops and the Kansas Jayhawk Er's The Third Glass, the Kansas Jayhawk Er's or Robbers was organized under the auspices of Senator Laine Heloc route. They wear the uniform of and, it is believed, receive pay from the United States. Their principal occupation for the last six months seems to have been the stealing of Negroes, the robbing of houses and the burning of Barnes grain and forage. The evidence of their crimes is unquestionable. In short, the brigade was accused of engaging to a degree in what has come to be known as total war. Authorities have offered different interpretations of the phrase Total war embraced by the Union Army. In the following discussion, I adopt the definition offered by Major Jeffrey at ICCAT, a former senior instructor in the international law division of the U. S Army's Judge Advocate School. In describing Major General William T. Sherman's march to the sea in 18 64 the targeting of defenceless civilian populations, the soldiers were allowed to rob, pillage and burn in a swath of horror. Sherman illegally directed US ferocity toward innocent and helpless civilians