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On July 16, 1864, Burbridge issued Order No. 59 which declared: "Whenever an unarmed Union citizen is murdered, four guerrillas will be selected from the prison and publicly shot to death at the most convenient place near the scene of the outrages."[1]During Burbridge's rule in Kentucky, he directed theexecutionand imprisonment of numerous people, including public figures, on charges oftreasonand other high crimes.
>Jennison soon exceeded his authority to defend the Kansas border counties against General Sterling Price’s army, then positioned in central Missouri after the Battle of Lexington. Henry W. Halleck, the new commander of the Department of the Missouri, criticized Jennison for “cross[ing] the line, [to] rob, steal, plunder, and burn whatever they can lay their hands upon.” At Independence, Jennison arrested every adult male, admonished accused secessionists for their depredations against Unionists, and then after releasing them, kept the secessionists’ possessions, including slaves. He was soon accused of similarly plundering Missouri’s proslavery Unionists.
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