General Order
Number 11
Headquarters
District of
the Border
Kansas City,
Missouri
August 25, 1863
First,___All
persons living in Jackson, Cass and Bates Counties, Missouri, and in that
part of Vernon included in this district, except those living within one
mile of the limits of Harrisonville, Hickman Mills, Independence and Pleasant
Hill and Harrisonville, and except those in the part of Kaw Township, Jackson
County, north of Brush Creek and west of the Big Blue, embracing Kansas
City and Westport, are hereby ordered to remove from their present places
of residence within fifteen days from the date hereof. Those who,
within that time, establish their loyalty to the satisfaction of the commanding
officer of the military station nearest their present places of residence
will receive from him certificates stating the fact of their loyalty, and
the names of the witnesses by whom it can be shown. All who
receive such certificates will be permitted to remove to any military station
in the district, or to any part of the State of Kansas except the counties
on the eastern border of the State. All others shall remove out of
the district. Officers commanding companies and detachments serving
in the counties named will see that this paragraph is promptly obeyed.
Second,___All
hay and grain in the field, or under shelter in the district, from which
the inhabitants are required to remove, within the reach of the military
stations, after the 9th of September, next, will be taken to such stations
and turned over to the proper officers there; and reports of the amounts
so turned over made to district headquarters, specifying the name of all
loyal owners and the amount of such produce taken from them. All grain
and hay found in such district after the 9th of September, next, not convenient
to such stations, will be destroyed.
Third,___The
provisions of General Order No. 10 from these headquarters will be at once
vigorously executed by officers commanding in the parts of the district,
and at the stations not subject to the operations of paragraph first of
this order, especially in the towns of Independence, Westport and Kansas
City.
Fourth,___Paragraph
3, General Order No. 10, is revoked as to all who have borne arms against
the government in the district since August 20, 1863.
By order of
the Brigadier General Ewing,
H. Hannahs,
Adjutant
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