Jennie Earl and Elizabeth S.C. correspondence 1859-186_;

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Jennie Earl and Elizabeth S.C. correspondence 1859-186_;

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This collection of letters was apparently written by two sisters living in Lawrence from 1859 to sometime after 1863. The letters are written to the two women's mother and brother who lived in Westinfield, Connecticut about events in Lawrence prior to and during the Civil War.The letters are arranged chronologically. Two letters dated 1859 and 1881 from two different attorney's are filed together, separate from the main body of correspondence.

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University of Kansas Kenneth Spencer Research Library Kanas Collection

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Elizabeth S. C. Earl.

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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...

Earl, Jennie L., and Elizabeth S. C.

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