Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kansas
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
Transactions of the Kansas State Historical Society
Author: Collections of the Kansas State Historical Society
Author: Kansas State Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Transactions of the Kansas State Historical Society
Author: Kansas State Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kansas
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
1st-6th biennial reports of the society, 1875-88, included in v. 1-4.
State Publications
Author: Richard Rogers BowkerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : State government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1060
Book Description
Prohibition in Kansas
Author: Robert Smith BaderPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
The Kansas Historical Quarterly
Author: Kirke MechemAbolitionist of the Most Dangerous Kind
Author: Todd MildfeltPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806193492
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
A controversial character largely known (as depicted in the movie Glory) as a Union colonel who led Black soldiers in the Civil War, James Montgomery (1814–71) waged a far more personal and radical war against slavery than popular history suggests. It is the true story of this militant abolitionist that Todd Mildfelt and David D. Schafer tell in Abolitionist of the Most Dangerous Kind, summoning a life fiercely lived in struggle against the expansion of slavery into the West and during the Civil War. This book follows a harrowing path through the turbulent world of the 1850s and 1860s as Montgomery, with the fervor of an Old Testament prophet, inflicts destructive retribution on Southern slaveholders wherever he finds them, crossing paths with notable abolitionists John Brown and Harriet Tubman along the way. During the tumultuous years of “Bleeding Kansas,” he became a guerilla chieftain of the antislavery vigilantes known as Jayhawkers. When the war broke out in 1861, Montgomery led a regiment of white troops who helped hundreds of enslaved people in Missouri reach freedom in Kansas. Drawing on regimental records in the National Archives, the authors provide new insights into the experiences of African American men who served in Montgomery’s next regiment, the Thirty-Fourth United States Colored Troops (formerly Second South Carolina Infantry). Montgomery helped enslaved men and women escape via one of the least-explored underground railways in the nation, from Arkansas and Missouri through Kansas and Nebraska. With support of abolitionists in Massachusetts, he spearheaded resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act in Kansas. And, when war came, he led Black soldiers in striking at the very heart of the Confederacy. His full story thus illuminates the actions of both militant abolitionists and the enslaved people fighting to destroy the peculiar institution.
Civil War on the Missouri-Kansas Border
Author: Donald GilmorePublisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781455602308
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
During the Civil War, the western front was the scene of some of that conflictï¿1/2s bloodiest and most barbaric encounters as Union raiders and Confederate guerrillas pursued each other from farm to farm with equal disregard for civilian casualties. Historical accounts of these events overwhelmingly favor the victorious Union standpoint, characterizing the Southern fighters as wanton, unprincipled savages. But in fact, as the author, himself a descendant of Union soldiers, discovered, the bushwhackersï¿1/2 violent reactions were understandable, given the reign of terror they endured as a result of Lincolnï¿1/2s total war in the West. In reexamining many of the long-held historical assumptions about this period, Gilmore discusses President Lincolnï¿1/2s utmost desire to keep Missouri in the Union by any and all means. As early as 1858, Kansan and Union troops carried out unbridled confiscation or destruction of Missouri private property, until the state became known as "the burnt region." These outrages escalated to include martial law throughout Missouri and finally the infamous General Orders Number 11 of September 1863 in which Union general Thomas Ewing, federal commander of the region, ordered the deportation of the entire population of the border counties. It is no wonder that, faced with the loss of their farms and their livelihoods, Missourians struck back with equal force.
Writings on American History
Author: Frontier Feminist
Author: Marilyn S. BlackwellPublisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
This comprehensive portrait of nineteenth-century reformer Clarina Howard Nichols uncovers the fascinating story of a complex woman and reveals her important role in women's rights, antislavery, and westward expansion.