On the day the Federals came to execute Order No. 11, my mother was bedfast, weak, worn and sick. The captain in charge said, ‘Mrs. Younger, why haven’t you complied with order No. 11?’ My mother said, ‘I am sick; I have no place to go and it is serious impossible for me to leave.’ ‘Mrs. Younger, you refuse to obey. We are going to burn your buildings.’ She pleaded with them and asked to stay the night. They said that she must burn the buildings herself in the morning. She agreed. On the following day she set it afire with her own hands.”
Cole Younger relating what happened to his mother, Bursheba Younger, during the execution of General Order No. 11 on the Younger Farm in Cass County, MO 1863. (via asktheshowmestate)















