[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from May 19 (reply #12) .

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

[centurion316]

The Battle of Kansas was almost over by this time. Certainly, Bushwacker raids would continue and the Quantrill raid on Lawrence was several years away, but Kansas was firmly a Free State. Leavenworth remained a stronghold for the slavery cause, but Daniel Anthony, the owner of the Leavenworth Times, was an avowed abolitionist. As the Colonel of the 7th Kansas Cavalry Regiment, he would take the border war to the Missouri side where he paid little attention to the allegience of farmers when he burned their homesteads. Both Union and Confederate supporters had their farms put to the torch by Anthony troops.