Narrative of a former slave. Lawrence? n.d.
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Blair Jr., Francis Preston, 1821-1875
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Blair was born in Lexington, Kentucky. He was the third and youngest son of newspaper editor and politician Francis Preston Blair, and Eliza Violet (Gist) Blair. He was the brother of Montgomery Blair, a Mayor of St. Louis and Postmaster General under Lincoln, and the cousin of B. Gratz Brown, a U.S. Senator and Governor of Missouri. Blair attended schools in Washington, D.C., was matriculated in Yale and the University of North Carolina, but graduated from Princeton University in 1841, and then...
Quantrill, William Clarke, 1837-1865
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William Clarke Quantrill was born in Canal Dover, Ohio in 1837. He came to Kansas as a young man, and taught school for a while before he became active in the border wars, between free state and pro-slavery forces in the fight for Kansas statehood. He fought on the Confederate side during the Civil War, participating in guerrilla warfare. His most infamous act as a guerrilla chief was the sack of Lawrence in the early morning of August 21, 1863. Quantrill died two years after the raid in a milit...
Williams, Frank
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Epithet: of Brixton British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000757.0x000139 ...
Williams, Henry, 1917-
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Epithet: of Add MS 37888 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001295.0x000033 Epithet: Reverend; of Derby British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000212.0x000339 Epithet: Secretary to the Duke of Richmond British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000212.0x00033a Ep...
Williams, Andrew, d. 1913
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Andrew Williams was a slave belonging to Henry Williams near Mt. Vernon, Lawrence Co., Missouri. Fought with Gen. Price in Arkansas in 1861. Was freed by the 6th Kansas Regiment in a raid in 1862. Sent to Fort Scott. Moved to Lawrence: gives an account of Quantrill's raid August 21, 1863. Moved to Topeka: gives an account of Price's attack in October, 1864. Hired by 7th Kansas Cavalry until they went farther west. Williams worked as gardener for William Connelley from 1908 to 1910. ...
Blunt, James Gillpatrick, 1826-1881
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Blunt was born in Trenton, Maine to John Blunt and Sally Gilpatrick Blunt. Blunt lived and worked on his family farm until he was 14. He may have spent some time at the Ellsworth Military Academy in Ellsworth, Maine. He became a sailor on a merchant vessel when he was 15, and attained the rank of captain at 20. In 1845 Blunt moved to Columbus, Ohio, where he enrolled in Starling Medical College. His maternal uncle, Dr. Rufus Gilpatrick, was one of the instructors. Graduating in February 1849,...
Price, Sterling, 1809-1867
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Missouri governor. From the description of Papers, 1856. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 36115930 Gov. of Missouri. From the description of Letter signed : City of Jefferson, to President Pierce, 1853 Nov. 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270619013 ...
