[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Yes, it seems to include any battle fought during the period including Indian battles.

[Kansas58]

Yes, I am from Kansas, and Quantrill's Raiders from Missouri crossed the border and attacked “Free Soil” Kansans in order to scare other anti-slavery voters from moving to Kansas.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act had everything to do with the Civil War.
The South could not stand it that their bloody terrorist war against the anti-slavery forces had failed.