By Clint Lacy.
While some call it a simple rescue mission to liberate captured Union soldiers, others claim that it was mass murder, which included women, children and the elderly.
The Civil War (or the War of the Rebellion as many Southerners prefer to call it), was a bitter and brutal conflict, but perhaps never more so than in the state of Missouri, where the wounds of the K.
Deep in the eastern Ozarks of Missouri, a battle still rages about a massacre that happened on Christmas Day of 1863.
By Clint Lacy