What is Marais des Cygnes massacre?
[[File:Marais-massacre.jpg|thumb|right|350px|{{Center|Marais des Cygnes massacre}}]] The '''Marais des Cygnes massacre''' happened on May 19, 1858 near the [[town]] of [[Trading Post, Kansas]].<ref name=mdcmCWWB>{{cite web |url=http://www.civilwaronthewesternborder.org/content/marais-des-cygnes-massacre-1 |title=Marais des Cygnes Massacre |website=Civil War on the Western Border |access-date=23 June 2016}}</ref> It was the last [[Violence|violent]] [[episode]] in the period known as [[Bleeding Kansas]].<ref name=mdcmCWWB/> [[Border Ruffian]]s led by Charles Hamilton stopped in the small village of Trading Post in [[Lynn County, Kansas]] on their to [[West Point, Missouri]]. Hamilton had previously been driven from his land in Lynn County by [[Free-Stater (Kansas)|free-staters]] and [[Abolitionism|abolitionists]].<ref name=FortScottTrib>{{cite web |url=http://www.fstribune.com/story/1315443.html |title=Remembering the Marais des Cygnes Massacre |date=3 March 2008 |publisher=Fort Scott Tribune |access-date=23 June 2016}}</ref> He came back to seek [[revenge]]. They captured eleven free-state men, all of whom Hamilton had a [[wikt:grudge|grudge]] against.<ref name=mdcmsKHS>{{cite web |url=https://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/marais-des-cygnes-massacre-site/11870 |title=Marais des Cygnes Massacre site |website=kansaPedia |publisher=Kansas Historical Society |access-date=23 June 2016}}</ref> The captives were marched into a nearby [[ravine]] where the [[Missouri]]ans [[Shooting|opened fire]] on them.<ref name=mdcmsKHS/> The story got [[national]] attention in the [[wikt:press|press]].<ref name=mdcmshsCWM>{{cite web |url=http://www.thecivilwarmuse.com/index.php?page=the-marais-des-cygnes-massacre |title=The Marais des Cygnes Massacre State Historic Site |publisher=Civil War Muse |access-date=23 June 2016}}</ref> [[East]]ern [[newspapers]] including the [[New York Times]] printed the story.<ref name=mdcmshsCWM/> Anti-[[slavery]] groups called the [[victim]]s [[martyr]]s.<ref name=mdcmshsCWM/> In 1974, the site of the massacr