: Colonel B. Wayne Quist, Dr. Steve Lansing
: Veterans in Crisis: PTSD, Jesse James and the Church that Jesse Built The Millersburg Swedes and the Northfield Bank Robbery
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'Widespread, horrific trauma impacted millions of Americans because of the American Civil War - the exceptionally violent period in American history that spans the lifetime of the notorious outlaw, Jesse James, 1847 to 1882. The effects of combat trauma and PTSD molded Jesse James and countless numbers of other Civil War soldiers. This volume of our 'Veterans in Crisis' series of PTSD books includes a psychological profile and PTSD analysis of Jesse James and other members of the brutal James-Younger gang that was defeated in Northfield, Minnesota on September 7, 1876. In 2024 we published the first two volumes of our 'Veterans in Crisis' series on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In Volume Three, we provide a unique overview of the impact of PTSD on both Jesse James and an entire generation of Americans, North and South, from the devastating terror and trauma of Civil War brutality and violence. We also clarify facts and issues surrounding the shooting and subsequent death of Swedish immigrant Nicolaus Gustafson. This book is the story of the James-Younger gang and the Northfield bank robbery from the perspective of the Millersburg Swedes, and the impact of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) on Jesse James and an entire generation of Civil War veterans, North and South. The book distills reams of data from the fiction, legend, mythology, and often neglected facts surrounding the exploits of Frank and Jesse James, Cole Younger, and the murderous James-Younger gang. Nearly all gang members experienced exceptionally violent trauma beginning as teenagers and extending throughout their criminal lives. The impact of PTSD on an entire generation of Americans during the violence of the American Civil War is addressed throughout this volume because it is virtually certain Jesse James and members of the gang suffered from severe, complex PTSD as revealed in distinct symptoms often cited in the voluminous literature. PTSD as a clinical diagnosis was unknown a

The 'Doc' - Steve Lansing, PhD, LICSW• Vietnam veteran in country 1968-1970, active duty U.S. Air Force 1966-1972.• Licensed therapist specializing in trauma and PTSD with a focus on veterans and other victims of severe trauma.• Mental health specialist, Minnesota Veteran's Treatment Court.• In long-term ptsd recovery.• Founder of dual recovery program - EmPower CTC, Rochester, Minnesota• President& Executive Director, Veterans Empowered, Inc., Rochester, Minnesota Email: Drsteve@vetsempowered.org Helping those with PTSD and significant trauma has become the passion and journey of my life. In 1966 after flunking out of college, and then rapidly getting a 1A draft designation, I joined the Air Force. This was no knee jerk decision. From a very early age I had been fascinated with aircraft and flying. An 8th grade trip to a local Air Force Base and the airshow that included the Navy's Blue Angels and multiple other demonstrations - and I was hooked. The journey that ensued was nothing I had planned. Basic training was an experience in reprogramming me from kid to adult, from civilian to military. I maxed the exams the Air Force administered and after basic training to tech school I went through almost a year of specialty training as an intelligence analyst, got a Top-Secret security clearance, and did some very interesting and challenging work. It meant leaving the U.S. for the first time and adapting to new cultures and new personal challenges. From an assignment in the Philippines, I volunteered in 1968 to go to Vietnam where I spent two years and was discharged in June of 1970 when my four years were up. In Vietnam I experienced multiple rocket attacks, saw people die, and experienced horrors the mind can never clear, but a war zone presents. As an intelligence analyst I was privy every day with information regarding acts of inhumanity that people render to others. On special duty assignments I got to experience first-hand many events that even half a century later still cause nightmares. Twenty years later I managed to obtain a PhD in Counseling with a focus on trauma, suicide, and cult psychology, co-authoring a book regarding individuals who underwent ritualistic abuse and severe trauma. Some of the individuals I treated at that time surpassed the horrors I had experienced while in a combat zone. In 1986, my family and I moved to Rochester, Minnesota to be Clinical Director of a faith-based suicide crisis line. As a Licensed Mental Health Professional who also had a faith background, the fit seemed perfect to again reach out and help the most vulnerable. The shock came with the multiple calls that my 40 counselors and I received. The majority were severe trauma victims - sexual assault, violence, and abuse in many forms. Even more significant was the fact that one out of every three calls was from a veteran, often in the middle of night. Tortured souls fitting all of the high-risk suicide indicators of plan, means and hopelessness.

Chapter 1


BLEEDING KANSAS – BLOODY MISSOURI


Missouri was called “Little Dixie” before the Civil War, torn apart by violence over the issue of slavery. By 1860, the population of Missouri was 10% slave. In Clay County, where the James brothers were born and raised, the population was 27% slave. The James and Younger families were slave owners.

Missouri was a “border state,” with slavery predominantly in the west, bordering Kansas territory. Strong anti-slavery Union sentiment resided in the east, especially in the large German population of St. Louis. Confederate sympathies led to the formation of two separate state governments, one allied with the Union and one with the Southern Confederacy.

The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 nullified the 1820 Missouri Compromise by allowing Kansas and Nebraska territories to join the Union as either a free state or a slave state. A fierce guerilla border war started in 1855.

1850 map showing free states, slave states, and free territories. Library of Congress.

•Missouri was split into bitterly opposed factions: anti-slavery Abolitionists vs Pro-slavery “Border Ruffians” and “Bushwhackers.”

•The James and Younger children grew up with slaves. As a Slave State, Missouri tried to secede from the Union in 1861.

•During the Civil War, the James and Younger brothers served under Confederate guerilla leaders William Clarke Quantrill and “Bloody Bill” Anderson.

•Anti-slavery Unionists supported the Republican Party. Pro-slavery secessionists in the south and western parts of Missouri supported the Democratic Party. Pro-slavery Unionists also identified with the Democratic Party.

In 1861 Missouri tried to secede from the Union and join the Confederate States but was prevented by the Union army. Throughout the Civil War, Missouri remained heavily pro-Confederate. Most of the state’s settlers came from the South, but the Missouri economy was solidly linked to the North.

Beginning in the mid-1850s, the landscape of Missouri was like the Iraq War in 2010—a divided and war-torn land, a complex bloodbath of terror, intimidation, revenge killings, house burnings, hangings, murder, arson, theft, and continuous cycles of grinding violence—“a war of 10,000 nasty cuts”—difficult, sometimes impossible, to tell friend from foe.

Fierce insurgent guerilla war continued in Missouri. Bitter violence along the Kansas–Missouri border in the 1850s foreshadowed the fierce national violence during the Civil War from 1861 to 1865. As the war dragged on, Missouri became a scene of brutal civil war within the greater Civil War.

Incessant political conventions, raids, massacres, pitched battles, and atrocities—a fierce conflict between Free State and pro-slavery forces that came to Kansas to settle and to make war.

The full-blown American Civil War started April 12, 1861, at Fort Sumpter, South Carolina. Jesse James was not yet 14. His older brother Frank quickly joined the Confederate Army as a member of the Missouri State Guard when he turned 18 in January 1861.

Frank James was captured by Union forces in September 1861 and allowed to return home by signing an oath of allegiance to the Union.

Frank soon ignored his oath and joined Quantrill’s Raiders, the fierce and brutal Confederate guerilla unit commanded by William Clarke Quantrill.

In August 1863, Frank James participated in the massacre of more than 150 anti-slavery settlers in Lawrence, Kansas. The town was looted, viciously sacked, and burned to the ground.

Three days later at Pottawatomie, Kansas, abolitionist John Brown slaughtered innocent people in retribution for Quantrill’s Lawrence massacre.

Barely 16, Jesse James began to fight as a rebel guerilla in 1864.

To stop guerrilla raids into Kansas from Missouri, the Union commander ordered total depopulation of Jackson, Cass, Bates, and northern Vernon counties under U.S. Army General Order No. 11.

Nearly 25,000 rural inhabitants, including the James family, were forced into Union camps or forced to leave the state; their houses were burned to prevent returning.

The guerrilla war in Missouri became a civil war within the greater Civil War.

U.S. MARTIAL LAW RULED MISSOURI

Nearly 1,200 battles and skirmishes were fought in Missouri during the Civil War. Flames of hate deeply divided Missouri over slavery.

Under the Confederate Partisan Ranger Act of 1862, any group of ten men could elect a captain, sergeant, and corporal, and start operating as an independent guerilla force fighting against the hated Union Army forces.

The James and Younger brothers both served in “Quantrill’s Raiders” under Captain William Clarke Quantrill.

William Clarke Quantrill’s battle flag was found in Olathe, Kansas following Quantrill’s 1862 raid. Kansas Historical Society

TO BE EMPOWERED, THE DOC SAYS…

WHATEVER INSTINCTS, BELIEFS, OR ECONOMIC IMPERATIVES DROVE PEOPLE TO ARMED CONFLICT IN THE PAST WERE FAR OUTSTRIPPED BY THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR AND ITS EVER-GREATER DESTRUCTIVENESS.

THERE WERE 27,000 DEATHS IN MISSOURI FROM GUERRILLA VIOLENCE DURING THE CIVIL WAR

JESSE JAMES – GUERRILLA, TERRORIST, OUTLAW, BANK AND TRAIN ROBBER

Never captured during 19-year criminal career – 17 killings – 7 gang members killed in action – 24 robberies: banks, trains, stagecoaches, fairgrounds gate receipts, steamboat.

• Liberty, Missouri, $60,000 stolen from Clay County Savings Association, February 13, 1866, killed a bystander.

• Lexington, Mo., $2,000 stolen, Alexander Mitchell and Co. Bank, October 30, 1866.

• Russellville, Ke