7. "WE ASK NO QUARTER"
PATCH

The above patches is being issued by Florida Depot . 
It is to commemorate Confederate Hero's and to 
let our enemies know how we feel when our heritage is attacked. 
 

During the Civil War the conditions that existed on the Kansas-Missouri border led to a unique type of warfare in which “no quarter” was asked and none was given. The term “no quarter” has been defined as “mercy or clemency, especially when shown to an enemy.” This type of warfare was generally referred to as fighting “under the black flag.”
The term was being used to describe a “no quarter” type of warfare as early as 1856 during the Wakarusa War between free state and slave state forces in Kansas.
Prior to the Civil War on the Kansas-Missouri Border, warfare was generally fought under certain accepted rules. Those rules required that combatants be permitted to surrender and prohibited the killings of prisoners or the mutilation of bodies. Certainly the war in the eastern theater of the Civil War was fought under more accepted standards of modern warfare. It was in the western theater, especially on the Kansas-Missouri border, that those rules were set aside and the hostilities reached a level of meanness not seen elsewhere.
The term “black flag” as both a symbol to describe the special “no quarter” quality of the border war and to describe an emblem by which one side communicated to the other the “no quarter” approach to warfare they intended to take.
Generally, the term “black flag” is used in connection with Confederate guerrillas. This is possibly because both Union and Confederate regular forces fought under recognized rules of warfare. The term came to be almost synonymous with the style of warfare conducted by William Quantrill, Bloody Bill Anderson, and George Todd. They fought the notorious Union units as Jennison’s Jayhawkers and Pennick’s 5th Missouri.  After many complaints were received about indiscriminate pillaging along the border, Jennison was forced to resign and Pennick’s regiment was disbanded.