A distraught family reacts to the murder of a kinsman who resisted evacuation in the wake of General Thomas Ewing's "Order No. 11", which forced virtually all those living in western Missouri border counties to leave their homes in August 1863.
Artist George Caleb Briggs, a staunch Unionist, but a bitter critic of the order, painted this imagined scene with the stated purpose of discrediting Ewell, who is shown looking on from his bay horse.
"The Civil War, Spies, Scouts and Raiders", Time -Life books, page 156
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