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Site of memory · The American Civil War, 1861–1865
Lawrence, Kansas
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.
This is one scene of Chapter 1 — A House Dividing in The American Civil War, 1861–1865.
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