Civil War

Title: Samuel Forster Tappan
Description: Photograph of Samuel Forster Tappan, a Kansas Territory resident who served as secretary of the Wyandotte Constitutional Convention.
Object Type: Image
Date: n.d.

Title: William T. Anderson Memorial Portrait
Description: Tintype photograph of William T. "Bloody Bill" Anderson, taken shortly after his death on October 27, 1864 in Richmond, Missouri.
Object Type: Image
Date: October 27, 1864

Title: Charles Fletcher (Fletch) Taylor
Description: Charcoal portrait of Charles Fletcher Taylor (Fletch) dressed in suit coat, shirt, tie, and hat. Fletch Taylor was one of the first members of Quantrill's raiders. He took part in the Lawrence, Kansas, massacre on August 21, 1863, and lost his arm from a gunshot wound in 1864. After the war he became a wealthy and respected citizen as vice president and general superintendent of the Joplin Mining and Smelting Co. Date of death is uncertain but may have been sometime between August 1916 and August 1917.
Object Type: Image
Date: 1893

Title: Hon. Charles Daniel Drake of MO.
Description: Black and white portrait of Charles Daniel Drake, Senator from Missouri, circa 1860-1875.
Object Type: Image

Title: Burr W. Bostwick
Description: This sepia carte de visite depicts Capt. Burr W. Bostwick, who served in Company K, Seventh Kansas Volunteer Cavalry. The photograph was produced by G.W. Armstead of Corinth, Mississippi ca. 1863.
Object Type: Image

Title: POW barracks rebuilt at Fort Delaware
Description: Image of replica POW barracks at Fort Delaware, Pea Patch Island. Confederate prisoners held at the fort included Missouri resident Alex M. Bedford and Brig. Gen. M. Jeff Thompson, Missouri State Guard.
Object Type: Image
Date: March 9, 2010

Title: Nebraska and Kansas
Description: This color map, entitled “Nebraska and Kansas,” shows those two territories, the territory acquired from Mexico in 1854, and a small map of the continental United States. The map was published in 1854 by J.H. Colton and Co. in New York.
Object Type: Map
Date: 1854

Title: Battle of Wilson's Creek
Description: This sketch, originally published in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper on August 31, 1861, depicts the Battle of Wilson's Creek. The caption states: "The Great Battle of the West, Wilson's Creek, Missouri-Repulse of the Rebel Cavalry by a section of artillery under Capt. Totten, U. S. A., supported by a company of Capt. Wood's Kansas Rangers (Cavalry), and two companies of Second Regiment of Kansas Volunteers."
Object Type: Image
Date: August 31, 1861

Title: Fort Scott Army Post, Officers Quarters
Description: The Fort Scott officers quarters were constructed between 1842 to 1848. Army officers and their families who were posted at Fort Scott lived in the quarters.
Object Type: Image
Date: 1890-1900

Title: John Wadsworth (Mixed Blood) n.d.
Description: Portrait of John Wadsworth, a member of the Peoria Tribe, no date.
Object Type: Image
Date: n.d.

Title: Governor Charles Robinson
Description: Photograph of Governor Charles Robinson. Robinson, an ardent Free-Stater associated with the New England Emigrant Aid Company, was named Kansas territorial governor by the illegitimate Topeka legislature on January 15, 1856. He was never officially recognized as territorial governor.
Object Type: Image
Date: n.d.

Title: Hon. Samuel Clarke Pomeroy of Kansas
Description: Black and white print of Samuel Clarke Pomery, Republican Senator from Kansas, who served from 1861-1873.
Object Type: Image

Title: John W. Whitfield
Description: Photograph of John W. Whitfield, the first Congressional delegate from Kansas Territory. The first election in Kansas Territory, held november 29, 1854, was won by Democrat John W. Whitfield, a proslavery settler and veteran of the Mexican-American War. Free-Staters complained about fraudulent voting by Misourians who crossed the border to cast their ballots and intimidate antislavery voters, especially in proslavery towns such as Leavenworth.
Object Type: Image
Date: n.d.

Title: John Brown
Description: Sepia-tone reproduction print of abolitionist John Brown.
Object Type: Image

Title: Robert T. Van Horn
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Robert T. Van Horn
Object Type: Image
Date: n.d.

Title: Thomas Carney
Description: Photograph of Republican Thomas Carney from Leavenworth, Kansas, who served as second Governor of Kansas from 1863 to 1865.
Object Type: Image
Date: 1860-1896

Title: General Nathaniel Lyon
Description: Illustration of General Nathaniel Lyon by Joseph Edward Baker.
Object Type: Image
Date: 1861

Title: Preston Brooks attacks Charles Sumner
Description: A lithograph cartoon depicting Preston Brooks' attack on Charles Sumner in the U.S. Senate chamber.
Object Type: Image
Date: 1856

Title: Riley Street, Easton, Kansas
Description: The main street in Easton, Leavenworth County, Kansas, circa early 1900's.
Object Type: Image
Date: n.d.

Title: Soldiers, Sixth Kansas Volunteer Cavalry
Description: This portrait, taken ca. 1861-1865, depicts fifteen members of the Sixth Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, Company B. The photograph was taken in Pleasanton, Linn County, Kansas. On the back of the photograph is a list of the soldiers' names and hometowns.
Object Type: Image

Civil War on the Western Border: The Missouri-Kansas Conflict, 1854-1865

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