Shannon Guards.—James Redpath, in his "Roving Editor," says the Shannon Guards "were a gang of Missouri highwaymen and horse-thieves, who organized under the lead of — — —, the Kansas correspondent of a pro-slavery paper, when the territorial troubles first broke out in the spring of 1856."
The dashes in the above quotation evidently refer to Henry Clay Pate (q. v.), and the Shannon Guards constituted the force which fought the battle of Black Jack in June, 1856, when Pate was captured, along with a number of his men.
Page 675 from volume II of Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc. ... / with a supplementary volume devoted to selected personal history and reminiscence. Standard Pub. Co. Chicago : 1912. 3 v. in 4. : front., ill., ports.; 28 cm. Vols. I-II edited by Frank W. Blackmar. Transcribed July 2002 by Carolyn Ward.
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