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Definition of Jayhawker

Jayhawker
Jayhawker Jay"hawk`er, n. A name given to a free-booting, unenlisted, armed man or guerrilla. Note: [A term of opprobrium used in the war of 1861-65, U. S.]

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- Jayhawker and red leg are terms that came to prominence in Kansas Territory during the Bleeding Kansas period of the 1850s; they were adopted by militant...
- The Jayhawkers! is a 1959 American Technicolor VistaVision western film directed by Melvin Frank, starring Jeff Chandler as Luke Darcy and Fess Parker...
- up Jayhawk in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Jayhawk may refer to: Jayhawker, originally a term for Free State or Union partisans during the Bleeding...
- Kansas "Definition of Jayhawker | Dictionary.com". www.dictionary.com. "Definition of JAYHAWKER". www.merriam-webster.com. "jayhawker" – via The Free Dictionary...
- Jayhawkers is a 2014 American sports drama/biographical film directed by Kevin Willmott, following the life of Wilt Chamberlain, Phog Allen, and the 1956–57...
- town's long support of abolition and its re****tion as a center for the Jayhawkers, who were free-state militia and vigilante groups known for attacking...
- Charles R. Jennison, an anti-slavery militia leader ****ociated with the Jayhawkers from Kansas and an early Republican politician in the region...
- a famous Jayhawker, and a member of the Kansas State Senate in the 1870s. He later served as a Union colonel and as a leader of Jayhawker militias during...
- The 7th Kansas Cavalry Regiment (also known as "Jennison's Jayhawkers") was a cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil...
- widespread violence as groups of Confederate bushwhackers and anti-slavery Jayhawkers competed for control. The town of Lawrence, Kansas, was a center of anti-slavery...