Article is concerned with how the army functioned during territorial Kansas and presents an analysis of the army's dispersal of the free-state legislature in Topeka on July 4, 1856. This particular event demonstrated the problems related to the use of federal troops.
Article was written for the Kansas State Historical Society by Robert Morris Peck. He was in the military and belonged to Company E, First Cavalry stationed in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Discusses the fort, pre-Civil War Kansas, the Indians, early Kansas City, Bent's Fort, western trails, etc.
