Two years ago on MBA'10: 20100328.

Copyright © 2012 Bob R Bogle



20100328 Missouri History Museum, Scott Joplin House, Gateway Arch, Jefferson Barracks, Fort Davidson, and an evening race with the moon through the Missouri Ozarks. . . .18650328 The Peacemakers: meeting at City Point, VA of Lincoln, Grant, Sherman and Porter. . . .18630328 "In the early morning hours, some men on the shore [of the Missouri River south of St Joe] flagged down the steamboat Sam Gaty, bound for St Joseph. On board were soldiers, passengers, and some 80 Negroes headed for freedom in Kansas. Once the boat pulled in, the men on shore revealed themselves as guerrillas and immediately began robbing the passengers, including a St Joseph grocer who was carrying more than $1,000 and a gold watch. Others were less fortunate, including two of Col William R Pennick's guerrilla fighters from the city; they were murdered where they stood. A St Joseph deckhand named George Schriver was spared only when a watchman on the boat insisted that he was needed for the crew. The guerrillas then lined up 10 to 20 of the Negroes on shore, while the captain demanded to know what the fighters were going to do. 'Blow their brains out,' one of the guerrillas said. One of the men held up a lantern by the victims' faces and, while the women on board the boat pleaded for mercy, another man shot each of the captives through the head. The guerrillas then ransacked the boat, throwing overboard all the flour, sugar, coffee, and other supplies they could find." . . .18370328 President Martin Van Buren proclaimed the Platte Purchase part of the state of Missouri. The Platte Purchase region includes the following modern counties within its bounds: Andrew, Atchison, Buchanan, Holt, Nodaway, and Platte. It also includes the northwest suburbs of Kansas City, a small area of Kansas City proper, the cities of St Joseph, Mound City and Maryville, Missouri, as well as Kansas City International Airport and almost all of Missouri's portion of Interstate 29, save the small portion which runs concurrently with Interstate 35 in Clay County.