American Civil War · SITE OF MEMORY ·
Lawrence, Kansas (1856–63)
1856 & 21 Aug 1863 — Sacked by pro-slavery raiders in 1856; in 1863 Quantrill’s guerrillas murder some 180 men and boys here. The border war was a civil war before the Civil War. Remember it plainly.
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- Causes of the American Civil War (chapter 2 of American Civil War)
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- The American Civil War, 1840–1877
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