[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from January 6 (reply #40)

Nicole Etcheson, Bleeding Kansas: Contested Liberty in the Civil War Era

John W. Geary Wikipedia page

[colorado tanker]

With the slavers gathering in Lecompton to write a new constitution, I fear there will be more bad times ahead for Kansas.

[EternalVigilance]

I think that if people want to have a thorough understanding of the events leading up to the war of the rebellion, they have to understand something about the Mexican war, since so many of the officers on both sides served there together.

One excellent place to start is with Grant’s memoirs, in which he tells of his experiences in that conflict.

http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/media/uploads/special_features/download_files/memoirs.pdf