The BushWhackers Author:Frank Gruber When Quantrell raided the small Kansas town in August 1863 at the head of 400 Missouri irregulars call the "Bushwgackers", he started an unparalleled reign of terror ending in the massacre of 127 helpless citizens. — An artest there at the time made a sketch of the scene and pictures of the raiders including one of Phil Bokker a union officer in ... more »a mil hosp hundreds of miles away. Bokker went looking for the reason , searching for the survivors including the BUSHWHACKERS !« less