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Date: October 23, 1864
This order states that General Order No. 54, which established martial law north of the Kaw River, has since been revoked now that the enemy has been driven south and…
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Date: October 20, 1864
A telegram from R.N. Hershfield to his commanding officer relaying information on General Blunt’s encounter with Sterling Price at Lexington, Missouri.
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Date: October 30, 1864
This letter is from G.W. Veale to General George W. Dietzler, Commander of the Kansas State Militia. Veale, who was colonel of the Second Kansas Militia, recounts his role and…
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Date: Between 1865 and 1866
This letter is from B.F. Dawson to the Colonel of the Second Kansas Militia, in Topeka, Kansas. The letter contains Dawson’s recollections of the Battle of the Blue, which happened…
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Date: April 06, 1863
A typed copy of a Civil War letter from Fred L. Haywood to his sister, Loesa. Fred, a member of the 1st Minnesota Battery, writes about his experience at the…
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Date: September 03, 1856
A letter from the Kansas State Central Committee to Colonel Philip St. George Cooke, in Lecompton. At the time of border conflict, this free-state committee sought protection from possible attack…
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Date: December 08, 1855
On November 21, 1855, Charles W. Dow, a free-state man, was shot by Franklin N. Coleman, a pro-slavery leader, near Hickory Point, Douglas County, in a dispute over a claim.…
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Date: 1860-1892
This item contains letters to James L. McDowell. Correspondents include Edmund G. Ross, Alexander Caldwell, Thomas Carney, Senator Preston Plumb, General Thomas Ewing, members and staff of the U.S. Senate…
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Date: 1861-1862
This correspondence is between George Luther Stearns and several prominent abolitionists, including Colonel James Montgomery, George W. Collamore, Mary A. Brown, and John Brown, Jr. Included is a circular from…
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Date: 1861-1864
These letters, telegrams, and other business and political/military correspondence involve Thomas C. Stevens or Governor Thomas Carney. Carney and Stevens had opened the first wholesale house in Leavenworth together in…
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Date: 1856-1865
Correspondence to and from Edmund G. Ross. A number of letters are from Ross to his wife Fannie Lathrop Ross. There is one letter from S. C. Pomeroy about Ross’s…
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Date: 1862
Letters from John Brown Jr. concerning the 7th Kansas Cavalry and their tendency to protect slaves rather than returning them to their owners. John Brown Jr. was the son of…
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Date: January 4, 1858
Election returns from the second ratification vote for the Lecompton Constitution. Delegates rejected the pro-slavery constitution.
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Date: 1858
Correspondence pertaining to the Lecompton Constitutional Convention delegates. A letter from Thomas Ewing, Jr. to Kansas Governor James W. Denver is included. A searchable transcription is available by clicking “Text…
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Date: January 7, 1859-July 6, 1864
Samuel Ayers was born in Massachusetts and lived in Defiance, Ohio, before coming to Kansas Territory, probably in 1859. These letters are written to Lyman Langdon, a friend from Defiance.…
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Date: May 28, 1856
An affidavit by William C. Childers from the Kansas Territory, U.S. District Court, 2nd District, Shawnee County in regards to John Brown, Jr. stealing slaves from William Jones, Prairie City,…
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Date: 1856
Materials relating to the case of the Kansas Territory, U.S. District Court versus John Brown, Jr. and others, including Jason Brown, Poindexter Maness, Samuel W. Kilborn, Henry H. Williams, Simeon…
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Date: 1916-1939
Glass plate negative of Irene Howard and Mary Broker, prisoners 24 and 25, of the Women’s Industrial Farm in Lansing, Kansas.
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Date: 1855
A bound volume of the Kansas Territory council journal for 1855. Some of the subjects dealt with are the territorial capital at Lecompton, coal mining, Governor Andrew Reeder, slavery, and…
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Date: March 09, 1858
A letter from James N. Gloucester, Brooklyn, New York, to John Brown. Gloucester, the son of a former slave, sends his regrets that he cannot attend a meeting in Philadelphia…
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Date: February 19, 1858
A letter from James N. Gloucester, Philadelphia, PA to John Brown. Gloucester, the son of a former slave, writes in support of Brown’s efforts to free slaves. He feels that…
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Date: 1860
Material relating to Kansas Territory, U.S. District Court, 2nd District versus James Lane, Wilson Shannon, and David S. McIntosh for forfeited recognizance.
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Date: 1856
Material relating to Kansas Territory, U.S. District Court, versus General John William Reid of Jackson County, Missouri, for the sacking of Osawatomie and kidnapping two boys. The statement was made…
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Date: 1856
Material relating to the Kansas Territory, U.S. District Court, 2nd District versus Andrew H. Reeder, Charles Robinson, James H. Lane, George W. Brown, Samuel N. Wood, George W. Deitzler, George…
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Date: 1858-1859
Material relating to Kansas Territory, U.S. District Court, 3rd District versus James Montgomery for robbery and murder. A writ of arrest for John Brown, Sr. on the charge of murdering…
