President James Buchanan signs a bill into law making “Bleeding Kansas” the 34th state of the Union.
Category: Kansas
The Missouri Relocation
August 25, 1863 – Brigadier General Thomas Ewing, commanding the Federal District of the Border between Missouri and Kansas, issued repressive orders that threatened to
The Sack of Lawrence
August 21, 1863 – Colonel William C. Quantrill’s Confederate raiders rampaged through Lawrence, the focal point of “Bleeding Kansas” since before the war. Quantrill’s partisans
The Border District: Ewing Incites Guerrillas
August 14, 1863 – Brigadier General Thomas Ewing incurred the wrath of Confederate raiders operating along the Missouri-Kansas border by targeting their relatives, including women and