Brigadier General Thomas Ewing, Jr., commanding the compulsory Union District of the Border, declares martial law in Leavenworth, Kansas, because he “could not get along with the mayor.”
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“Law of the Jungle”
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References:
Letter from Thomas Ewing, Jr., Brigadier-General, Department of the Missouri, to Lieutenant-Colonel C.W. Marsh, Asst. Adj. Gen., Department of the Missouri (July 22, 1863), Official records of the War of the Rebellion, series I, volume 22, part 2, pages 388-89.
Thomas Ewing Jr. – Wikipedia
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