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Fighting the Ghosts at Lone Jack
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Description
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Extensive article about the Battle of Lone Jack southeast of Kansas City in 1862, with maps, photos, illustrations, and a list of casualties of the battle.
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Date
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1985-04
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Trading Gray for Blue: Ex-Confederates Hold the Upper Missouri For the Union
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Description
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Confederate prisoners of war were allowed to enlist in the Union Army. Troops were needed along the Upper Missouri to protect forts and make peace with the Indians. The First U.S. Volunteer Infantry Regiment was sent and were called "Galvanized Yankees". The men were sent to Fort Rice in Dakota Territory on the Upper Missouri and reached there on October 17, 1864. Issues they were involved in included Native relations, Indian trade, emigrant aid and military intelligence gathering. "Despite their short tenure on the Upper Missouri, the First U.S. Volunteers left an important legacy. From their suffering and needless deaths, the Army eventually learned to supply western garrisons months in advance with fruits and vegetables and buffalo clothing for the severe winters. Dialogue was opened with Yanktonai and eastern Teton leaders who could foresee having to share their country with Euro-Americans. Native American annuities were protected from illegal graft, and illegal trade was curtailed. Northwestern commerce and emigration was protected and encouraged. More important than the insight they shed on the nature of civil war, Native-Euro-American relations and frontier development, the U.S. Volunteers provide a vivid picture of the rebirth of the United States after the Civil War. On the Upper Missouri, the First U.S. Volunteers demonstrated that Northerners and Southerners could live peaceable and work together toward common goals."
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Date
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2005
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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From Bethel, Missouri, to Aurora, Oregon: Letters of William Keil, 1855-1870 Part I
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Description
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A series of letters from William Keil to his original colony in Bethel, Missouri about his journey west with his followers and the creation of a second colony based on communal living in Aurora, Oregon. The letters are dated from June 25, 1855 to January 18, 1870. Letters from 1855 describe events and Keil's impressions of the journey including stops at Forts Kearny, Laramie, Hall, and Boise; relations with fellow travelers and soldiers; unusually "cordial relations" with Indians; Keil's arrest, trial, and aquittal; the condition of and initial settlement in the Washington Territory; and the subsequent journey to Oregon. Letters from 1861 and 1870 include descriptions of the status of the Aurora colony and its relationship with the Bethel colony and dictates from Keil to the Bethel colony on how to behave during the Civil War. Article includes two portraits of Keil and other images.
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Date
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1953-10-01
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Guerrilla Warfare in Civil War Missouri, 1862
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Description
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The author states in the preface of Volume I: "I concentrate on all southern partisan leaders I could identify and many of the Rebel recruiters, and I detail their methods, tactics, and incentives to present the full spectrum of their contribution to irregular warfare. Conversely, I detail the Union counteractions to this southern threat, but I keep the focus deliberately on southern personalities and less so on northern leaders. I mostly keep the focus of the Union combatants at the local level where they actually encountered southern guerrillas or bushwhackers." Books include notes on each chapter, a bibliography, and an extensive index. The author divides the state of Missouri into four sections, including: the northeast, the northwest, the southeast, and the southwest, and discusses the action in those areas and the counties and towns affected within each section. Includes numerous maps and illustrations.
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Date
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2004/2007
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Kansas City in 1879
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Description
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Promotional booklet for Kansas City, Missouri. Item includes sections covering the development of the city's business interests, a list of buildings constructed in 1878, its history, its geographic advantages, descriptions of various businesses and public institutions, descriptions of its suburbs, and advertisements.
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Date
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1879
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Title
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SC15-1 James J. Akard Papers Finding Aid
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Description
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James J. Akard was born July 7, 1838, in Polk County, Missouri. He was captain of Company A, Eighth Missouri State Militia Cavalry during the Civil War. After the war he was elected to the state legislature and held other important Polk County positions including sheriff, collector and clerk of the county court. He died in 1919.The collection includes official reports, general orders, court martial proceedings, photographs, correspondence, pension claims, and miscellaneous items. Much of the material in the collection relates to Company A, 8th Cavalry Regiment, Missouri State Militia.
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Date
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1861/1917
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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SC15-6 Abiel Leonard and Odon Guitar Papers Finding Aid
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Description
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Abiel Leonard (1797-1863) was a schoolteacher, lawyer, landowner, and politician who lived in Missouri during the early years of statehood. He served in the Missouri state legislature in 1834 and was appointed to a seat on the Missouri Supreme Court in 1855. Odon Guitar (1825-1908) came to Missouri in 1827 and lived in Boone County. He was a lawyer, politician, and a brigadier general in the Civil War serving for the Union forces in Missouri. The collection covers a large span of years and includes a variety of material including correspondence, legal documents, copies of 19th-century newspapers, photographs mostly relating to the Guitar family, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, manuscripts, certificates, invitations, and other items. Of special interest are family letters, a duel contract between Abiel Leonard and Taylor Berry, Guitar's letters concerning his California gold rush venture, Guitar's Civil War dealings, and genealogy information with some written in French.
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Date
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1809/1959
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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Title
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SC15-8 Mrs. J. O. Williams Collection Finding Aid
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Description
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This collection has information relating to Richard Yeager (also known as Dick Yeager) and his activities in the Civil War and on the Santa Fe Trail. Yeager, noted guerrilla who rode with Quantrill, was also a wagon master between Westport and Santa Fe and a friend and compatriot of Upton Hays, noted resident of Westport, prominent in several early local battles and skirmishes in the Civil War.
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Date
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1861/1865
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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SC15-7 Republication Extra: The Great Battle at Springfield
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Description
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This collection consists of a bound volume containing maps, portraits, text, and illustrations clipped from unknown sources, and a fabric-backed copy of the St. Louis Daily Missouri Republican extra edition dated August 14, 1861, all related to fighting at Springfield, Missouri.
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Date
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1861
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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Title
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SC15-3 Cyrus F. Boyd Diary Finding Aid
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Description
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Boyd's three-volume diary details his Civil War experiences, with the last volume continuing for some years after the war. The first diary (July 2, 1862, to February 15, 1863) is of the 15th Iowa Infantry and references the Army of the Tennessee, Battle of Corinth, as well as other action in Tennessee and Mississippi. The second diary dates from February 16, 1863, to July 30, 1863, when Boyd was a first lieutenant in the 34th Iowa Infantry, Company B. Locations include Missouri, Louisiana, and Mississippi. The third diary dates from August 24, 1864, with October 1883 as the last entry date. Boyd is still a member of the 34th Iowa Infantry. Locations include Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Iowa. Items after the war entries include accounts of his life, mentioning his marriage, children, work, etc.
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Date
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1862/1883
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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Title
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The Half Not Told: The Civil War In a Frontier Town
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Description
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This book concerns the city of Saint Joseph, Missouri during the Civil War. It contains several pages relating to Odon Guitar and his involvement as commander there during the war. Includes his photograph as well as others.
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Date
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2001
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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SC209 Emancipation Proclamation Finding Aid
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Description
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This collection contains the printed text of the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation issued September 22, 1862, and the final proclamation signed into effect on January 1, 1863.
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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Title
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SC36 Robinson Family Papers Finding Aid
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Description
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This collection contains correspondence, court records, maps, deeds, bills, etc., and has been arranged by date order with most items relating to Montgomery and Buchanan County, Missouri. It contains maps of state roads for St. Joseph and the Gallatin area. A series of letters were written during the Civil War, some from Vicksburg, others written from the ship the U.S.S. Constitution off Newport, Rhode Island. Folder 23 includes mention of Jim Lane of Kansas, "I fell in with a congressman from Platte County and (also one of Jim Lane's Colonels) I saw Jim Lane in Washington and heard him speak...."
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Date
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1820/1893
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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Title
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SC230 William M. Morton Family Papers Finding Aid
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Description
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This collection consists of correspondence, ephemera, and research materials related to the William Monroe Morton family that were collected, arranged, and donated by a descendant of the family. This collection documents the lives of a group of family and friends through their correspondence with each other about family members, everyday life, and financial matters through the years before, during, and after the Civil War. The correspondents found in this collection were writing from many areas of the country, but primarily Missouri, Arkansas, California, Illinois, and Virginia. This series consists of the transcriptions of 55 letters contained in the collection, along with additional research materials. The transcriptions were done by the donor of the collection, and a copy has been digitized and made available on our website at, https://kchistory.org/document/sc230-william-m-morton-family-papers-transcription-and-index.
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Date
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1830/2017
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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Title
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Colonel W. R. Penick & Jacob Hall
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Description
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This issue contains numerous transcriptions from various sources relating to W. R. Penick who held military commissions with the Union Army during the Civil War. He saw service in Jackson County, contending with the guerrilla warfare. Also contains information pertaining to Jacob Hall, a one-time overland trail freighter. Includes a photograph of Hall, and his family history listed out.
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Date
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2007-12
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Walter Williams Dies at 117--Last of the Johnny Rebs Surrenders and Goes Home
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Description
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File containing a newspaper clipping from the Birmingham, (Alabama) News (located inside a compilation or binder entitled "Veterans: Mexican War, Civil War, Spanish-American War, World War I") about Walter Williams (1842-1959), "honored as the last surviving veteran of the Civil War." Native of Mississippi serving the Confederacy in the South and moving to Texas after the war as a cattle rancher, dying in Houston.
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Date
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1959-12-20
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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SC15-9 Dixon and Jordan Family Papers Finding Aid
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Description
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This collection contains close to 40 Civil War letters written between the Dixon family with some related Jordan family letters. Most were written by men in the family who were soldiers in the Union Army primarily in Company K, 47th Regiment of Illinois Volunteers as well as a few letters from Company E, 112th Regiment of Illinois Volunteers. The Lemuel Dixon family was residing in Stark County, Illinois, during this war-time period. Letters contain news pertaining to the soldier's health as well as other soldiers from the same community back home, camp conditions, troop movements, hospital conditions, politics, and the Rebels.
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Date
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1840/1898~
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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Title
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SC230 William M. Morton Family Papers Transcription and Index
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Description
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This collection contains documents and records created by and related to the William Monroe Morton (1801-1870) Family. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence between relatives, friends, and acquaintances, written between 1839 and 1905. These letters contain information on family members, financial matters, and life before, during, and after the Civil War. Sent from various locations around the country, most were written in Missouri, Arkansas, California, Illinois, and Virginia. Additional items include genealogical information, copies of Civil War records, and ephemera. A unique feature of the collection is the research aids created by donor and Morton Family descendant, Ronald E. Holland, DMin, DD. In 1997, Mr. Holland transcribed and indexed 55 pieces of correspondence written between 1850 and 1865. While a physical copy of this transcription and index resides with the collection, it has also been uploaded here for researcher use. View the entire collection inventory at: https://kchistory.org/document/sc230-william-m-morton-family-papers?solr_nav%5Bid%5D=09e899a21f272616c51d&solr_nav%5Bpage%5D=0&solr_nav%5Boffset%5D=0&search=sc230
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Date
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1837/2017
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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