Livingston's Hideout - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Livingston's Hideout - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Livingston's Hideout was most likely the only permanent Confederate military camp inside Kansas during the Civil War. It was in the very corner of southeast Kansas, in the very corner of Cherokee County, Kansas. It was about north of the border with Indian Territory and it was less than west of the border with Missouri. It was west of Baxter Springs, where a series of Union military posts existed from 1862 to 1863. Thomas R. Livingston became a leader of a group of Confederate guerrillas in the area, becoming first a captain and then a major. He needed locations to hide himself and his guerrillas from pursuing Union troops and this hideout suited the guerrillas well. The guerrillas sought to spy on Union forces and raiding units he found small enough to defeat.Betty F. Kyrias, letter to William C. Pollard, Jr., April 1, 1993, pp. 3-4.Pollard, "Forts and Military Posts in Kansas: 1854-1865" (Ph.D. dissertation, Faith Baptist College and Seminary, 1997), p. 125. A copy of this dissertation can be found in the Manuscript Div. of the Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka, Kans. Read more on Wikipedia
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