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On Saturday, August 14, 2010 a group of
people from various Civil War study groups met at the Native Sons ( now
Native Sons and Daughters of Greater Kansas City) marker on the
southeast corner of 15th and Grand to commemorate the collapse of the
Union Prison and resulting deaths of several Confederate women
prisoners.
From the commemoration program:
"On this day in history, a tragedy took
place in Kansas City, Missouri. That Friday at 2 p.m., the Union jail
collapsed killing four women outright: Josephine Anderson,
Charity McCorkle Kerr, Armenia Crawford Selvey and Susan Crawford
Vandever. A fifth woman, Caroline Younger, died in 1865 from her
injuries. Many other prisoners were injured and crippled.
These southern women were being held for allegedly aiding Missouri
guerillas. A young boy, Jeptha Selvey, son of Armenia Selvey,
was also being held at the prison at the time of the collapse."
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