The KC Star had a cool section about the Civil War in Missouri & Kansas last Sunday.
As a descendant of the Missouri State Militia, I say:
BURN LAWRENCE AGAIN!!!
Kidding, I'm kidding...
One of the coolest new Civil War monuments is in Harrisonville, MO. Cass County was one of the areas burned to the ground because of Union General Ewing's General Order #11. It created dozens of "Jennison Tombstones." Jennison was an especially nasty Kansas Redleg:
http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=22089
BTW: Jennison was eventually court marshalled for plundering in Missouri.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_R._Jennison