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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

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