Ditto, count me in!
Curiously, for the first time in a good many years, my travels have brought me to Kansas today.
A beautiful, crisp & windy fall day with no blood anywhere to be seen. ;-)
My maternal grandparents came from Kansas, their families settled here after the Civil War, strong Unionists.
In Kansas even before the war, slavers were overwhelmed by a flood of aanti-slavery immigrants.
Several of my abolitionist forebears went to Fort Scott, Kansas in the late 1850s, and died there. Actually, four adult members of the family died there in the same year. We've never really been able to track down exactly what they died from. There was a lot of violence taking place, but there were also some pretty nasty epidemics. We may never know.