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Title
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"I Was a Prinsoner of War"
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Description
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Reprint of a portion of Samuel J. Reader's autobiography. A free-state partisan, Reader witnessed and participated in the Bleeding Kansas conflict and later served in the Second Kansas State Militia during Confederate General Stirling Price's 1864 invasion of Missouri and Kansas. He was taken prisoner during the Battle of the Big Blue and spent several days with the Confederate forces before he managed to escape. The reprinted portion here describes Reeder's capitivity, as he was forced to march south from Jackson County, Missouri to Fort Scott, Kansas.
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Date
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2014
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Under Moonlight in Missouri
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Description
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Reprinted reminiscences of John Benton Hart, as dictated to his son between 1918 and 1923. Born in Pennsylvania in 1842, Hart and his family settled in Kansas in 1854. In 1862, he volunteered for the Eleventh Kansas Infantry (later converted to calvary) and spent the next few years clashing with Indians on the frontier and Confederates and guerrillas along the Missouri Border. The article includes two versions of Hart's account of the Battle of Westport in October 1864.
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Date
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2014
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
