
Kansas's War
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Kansas's War illuminates the new state's main preoccupations: the internal struggle for control of policy and patronage; border security; and issues of race-especially efforts to come to terms with the burgeoning African American population and American Indians' continuing claims to nearly one-fifth of the state's land. These documents demonstrate how politicians, soldiers, and ordinary Kansans understood the conflict and were transformed by the war.
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"Kansas's War: The Civil War in Documents has much to recommend it and will prove a handy and valuable reference for any scholar interested in territorial or wartime Kansas in the Civil War.... Ponce provides insightful introductions to each chapter, offering clear and concise overviews of the issues and themes." (Journal of Southern History) "Pearl Ponce...has effectively tackled the state of Kansas in a fresh and thought-provoking collection of documents, many of which have been hidden in archives or newspapers since John Brown caused all that fuss back in 1856." (Kansas History) "A skillful selection of historical documents spanning the decades before, during, and after the Civil War, Kansas's War is a great introductory resource for college level classrooms and libraries." (Civil War Books and Authors blog) "Pearl T. Ponce presents a fascinating collection of primary sources to illuminate the tumultuous early history of Kansas. Her study gives voice to a wide array of Kansans on a wide range of topics."More details
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- Intro
- Cover
- Half title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Series Editors' Preface
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- One Settlement and Strife
- Protecting Slavery in Kansas Territory
- Thomas Wells Describes Kansas
- A South Carolinian Enters Kansas Territory
- Imprisoned on Charges of Treason
- The Pottawatomie Massacre
- Kansas as an Outpost in a Larger War
- Ephraim Nute on the Doy Incident
- Two Joining the Union
- "What is Kansas, with or without slavery, if she should destroy the rights and union of the states?"
- Pursuing Women's Rights in Territorial Kansas
- The Fort Scott Democrat on Harpers Ferry
- Drought in Kansas Territory
- Miscellaneous Accounts of Conditions Resulting from Drought
- Thaddeus Hyatt's Appeal for Kansas Relief
- "The Irrepressible Conflict Grows Warm"
- "Freedom & Oppression grappled hand to hand"
- The Thirty-fourth State Joins the Union
- A Democratic Sheet Finds a Political Equilibrium
- "I begin to think Kansas fated"
- "No man in Kansas dares raise a secession flag"
- Three Patronage and Policy
- "Those having no guns must use broomsticks"
- "An effort is being made to get up a panic"
- Two Newspapers Assess Lane's Defense of His Brigade
- Kansas "no very agreable command"
- Lane a Charlatan Whose Appointment Would Imperil the Union
- Left to "the mercies of a vindictive and relentless force"
- "I must hold Missouri responsible"
- "The merits of the Kansas people need not to be argued to me"
- Four Kansas's Men in Blue
- Kansas Exceeds Its Quota
- A Wisconsin Soldier Moves through Kansas
- Excerpts from Joseph Trego's Letters
- A Douglas Democrat Pledges Himself to Lincoln
- "The cause of the war must be removed": The Letters of Samuel Ayers
- The First Kansas Colored Infantry at Island Mound, Missouri
- To Be Kept Here "will disable and Destroy us"
- Proud to Be in the West's Army
- John A. Martin Reports on the Battle of Chickamauga
- A Magnificent Effort, "But at what a sacrifice!"
- The Battle of Poison Spring, Arkansas
- The Diary and Letters of Webster Moses
- The Draft: "some one is to blame"
- The Diaries of David R. Braden
- Five Warfare along the Kansas-Missouri Border
- "Extermination is our motto"
- Life and Death on the Border
- The Lawrence Massacre
- "A Night of Terror"
- "Death, sudden and most unexpected"
- "The old border hatred": Official Report on the Lawrence Massacre
- "I shall not leave Lawrence untill it is destroyed the third time"
- A Young Signal Corpsman Sees Bushwhackers for the First Time
- James Lane on Sterling Price's 1864 Raid
- Six Kansans and Antislavery
- The Fugitive Slave Law in Kansas
- "First remove the cause of the disease, then cure" it.
- Fleeing into Kansas
- The Fort Scott Bulletin on Contrabands
- A Subscription to Aid Colored Volunteers
- "In the throes of deliverance from the monster slavery"
- Emancipation: Doing Right
- The Battle of Honey Springs
- "The onward march of Anti-Slavery"
- Worried that African Americans Would Gain the Vote in Kansas
- "They begin to think that the collord men can fight"
- The Lessons of the War
- Seven Politics and Prosperity
- Decrying the "depart in peace" Doctrine
- The Bond Swindle
- War and Prosperity
- Stutely Stafford Nichols and the Opportunities of War
- Kansas Men "are stealing themselves rich in the name of Liberty"
- Government Corruption in Kansas
- Quartermaster's Report, Fort Leavenworth, 1863
- "Who is Loyal?"
- The Death of President Lincoln
- Eight The Continuing Mission
- "The Cherokees are arming and are preparing to invade Kansas"
- Losses Sustained during an 1861 Cherokee Raid
- "The most Experienced men are unable to control these savages"
- "Their country should be redeemed"
- A Member of the Indian Home Guard Writes of Neosho
- "The Indians seem to want to make peace"
- The Eleventh Kansas in the West
- Major Hancock on Indian Affairs in Kansas
- Nine The Promise of Kansas
- "Traversed by the Iron horse"
- Farming Continues amid the Distractions
- "We dont want any more cry of famine"
- Kansas Suffrage Song
- "Lands for the landless"
- The Railroad's Route
- Rocky Mountain Grasshoppers Come to Kansas
- "Ho for Kansas!"
- The Exodus "will test the boasted love of liberty in the north"
- Struggling to Provide for the Refugees
- "They still come"
- Timeline
- Discussion Questions
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
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