Joplin, Mo., residents will get a chance Thursday to learn
more about a skirmish that may not have unfolded as
previously believed, according to new archaeological evidence. The Civil War
came to the Rader Farm site in during two days in May
1863. Fifteen black soldiers of the 1st Kansas
Colored and three white soldiers from the 2nd Kansas Volunteer Artillery
Battery were killed by Confederate guerrillas. The bodies of some of the black
soldiers were mutilated. • Article
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