Ron: click on 'Members List' and send a PM to Bruce Day. 5 minutes with him will likely answer most of your questions.
And for those uninterested in 'fly over' country and where the War Between the States actually began
Pro-slavery Missourians and 'Free Staters' (later called Jayhawks) from the Kansas-Nebraska Territory started killing each other in 1856.
Quantrill's Sack of Lawrence August 21, 1863.
http://www.civilwarhistory.com/quantrill/quantrill.htm
http://www.kancoll.org/books/cordley...trel.raid.html
"The Tragic Prelude" by John Steuart Curry in the Capital Building, Topeka
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/proj...brownhome.html
