In the summer of 1862, the Civil War had been a reality in the United States for about a year. Due to the lack of news sources in those days, citizens were not well informed about battles and skirmishes going on around them. They relied on newspapers and word of mouth coming through the stagecoach lines, railways or by telegraph. Unfortunately, Kirksville did not have the latter two sources in 1862. Perhaps the locals had heard of the Confederate defeat at the Battle of Pea Ridge in Arkansas in March 1862, but little did they know that one of the major officers in that battle, Major General Sterling Price, would soon send a man to northern Missouri to recruit young men for the Confederate Army.
James Morgan Utz was carrying a hidden stash of medicine and secret messages when he was arrested near the present day Clayton and Ballas roads. On Dec. 24, 1864, he
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With his expulsion from the House of Representatives on Friday, George Santos, R-N.Y., joined a select group of disgraced U.S. politicians consigned to that ignominious fate. In the history of Congress, only 20 members — five representatives and 15 senators — had previously been removed from office by a vote of their peers, according to the Congressional Research Service. The reason for most of the earlier ousters was disloyalty to the United States, specifically for backing the Confederacy over