On January 29, 1861, Kansas joined the Union as a free state. The church was completed in 1862. The next year (August 21, 1863) Quantrill sacked Lawrence.
An illustration in
Harper's Weekly Sept. 5, 1863
http://www.civilwarhistory.com/quantrill/quantrill.htm http://www.kancoll.org/books/cordley...trel.raid.html
"The Tragic Prelude" of "Bleeding Kansas", by John Steuart Curry in the Capital Building, Topeka
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/proj...brownhome.html
No state contributed a greater percentage of able bodied men to the Union cause; almost 1/2
Lincoln Co. courthouse
