Capitolo 31
It is probable that soldiers of confederate fraternize well in oriental fields because
there they so rarely had some cause for the personal hostility toward each
other, but not in western. The struggle on the border was continuous and to
the death.
The leaders in the west or many of them, on both the sides it was men of
the ungovernable temperaments, of violent passions and not repressed, sometimes
of scurvy inclinations painfully, even if, in the matter of both
vices and the virtues there were considerable difference of degree among
them. Lane and Shelby and Montgomery and Quantrill were not really types,
rather owes him/it both says their they were extreme cases. They never seems
you/he/she has taken risks on each other the inactivity. Their witticism invariably
it was, to be prepared for the worse one and their practice, retaliation.
You would suppose as soon as that to a man it likes Lane that never had
known moderation during the long struggle for Kansas or is
on scrupulous around anything, in the event of his he/she adopted
state has shown again to its old enemy, the Missourian is able
to quietly place contentedly as a legislator or stay to Washington,
his/her role of keeper of the House Bianca that you/he/she is ended. [89] the
preoperating danger to Kansas visibly threatened in summer of 1861
and the critical moment saw again Lane in the west, energetic over
precedent. Him taken on his/her position to Strong Scott, it that it is his
it condemns that, from that point and from the line of the Small one
Osage, the oriental and whole section of the state included of Strong
Leavenworth, could be protected better. [90]
[Footnote 89: How Villard tells us [_Memoirs_, vol. the, 169],
Lane was in command of the "Frontier Protects", one of the two special
patrols that have protected the House Bianca of first days of the war.
There were however, those that heard again there him his/her presence. For
example, notices the entrance of notebook of Hay, while "Going to my room, I met the
Captain. He was a small boozy and very eloquent. He dilated on the
troubles of the time and it complained about the existence of a garrison in the