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Title
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The Military Post as a Factor in the Frontier Defense of Kansas, 1865-1869
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Description
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Article about the history of military posts, forts, and camps in the defense of the Kansas frontier, including the Santa Fe Trail, back to the 1818 establishment of "Cantonment Martin" located "on Cow Island in the Missouri river within the bounds of the present Atchison county, Kansas" and created "as a base of supplies for Major Stephen H. Long's engineering expedition of 1819-'20."
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Date
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1931-11
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Kansas Negro Regiments in the Civil War
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Description
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Article about the "two Kansas Negro regiments" (the First and Second Kansas Colored Volunteers) in the Civil War and their military, "social and political overtones" for African Americans of the mid-1800s. Description of the hesitancy of President Lincoln and eagerness of General Jim Lane and Charles Jennison to utilize black soldiers, the results of the blacks' battles, pay and treatment, etc.
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Date
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1953-05
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Object Type
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Magazine Article