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Lawrence (Kan.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 7 Records:

Correspondence between Oscar G. Richards and William E. Connelley

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P136
Overview Richards and William Connelley corresponded about Kansas territorial history. Richards, who participated in the border wars between Kansas Territory and Missouri (1854-1861), recounted the events for Connelley, a historian. The letters, dated 1902-1909, were written approximately 50 years after the events. Connelley and Richards were specifically interested in detailing the border war involvement of Richards himself as well as James Lane, John Brown, William Quantrill, and Governor...
Dates: 1902 - 1909

"Grandmother's Letters," by Louisa B. Simpson

 Collection — Folder 1
Call Number: RH MS P983
Overview

Photocopy of typescript of stories about a young woman growing up in territorial and Civil War-era Kansas.

Dates: 1847 - 1864

Jennie Earl and Elizabeth S.C. [Crittenden] correspondence

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P285
Overview

This collection of letters was apparently written by two sisters living in Lawrence from 1859 to sometime after 1863. The letters are written to their mother and brother who lived in Westinfield, Connecticut, and concern events in Lawrence prior to and during the Civil War.

Dates: 1859-186-?

Manuscript, "A Night of Terror"

 Collection — Folder 1
Call Number: RH MS P241
Overview

A night of terror. The recounting of events told by the widow of Duncan Allison, concerning Quantrill's Raid.

Dates: 1863

Quantrill's raid reminiscence

 Collection — Folder 1
Call Number: RH MS P467
Scope and Contents

This is the reminiscence of R.H. Miller about Quantrill's raid, involving his house at 1101 E. 19th Street in Lawrence, Kansas. It was written by William Miller in 1913.

Dates: 1913

The history of our ancestors; a record of the Riggs, Baldridge and Agnew families

 Collection — Volume 1
Call Number: RH MS D59
Overview

The history of our ancestors. Being a record of the Riggs, Baldridge, and Agnew families together with fragmentary data as to other cognate families. Ann Arbor, Mich., 1915.

Dates: 1915

Thomas Carney correspondence

 Collection
Call Number: RH MS P299
Overview

The collection contents include correspondence written to and from Governor Carney.

Dates: 1862-1865, 1874