. A new centennial history of the State of Kansas [microform] : being a full and complete civil, political, and military history of the state from its earliest settlement to the present time. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. yw TI'TTLK's UlSTOUY OF common, ami it bciciuuc noi-cssiiry !il).)iiL the ciM of .Inly to imiko uii fNaiuplo of a fort iioar Ossawaloiniu. Some troo state lueii for the work, and on tho morning of August oth, tlio Georgian raiderrt Hceing a woiw fato before tlietn, unle«.s they moved oxpeditiously, all the spoil that had been uceiii
. A new centennial history of the State of Kansas [microform] : being a full and complete civil, political, and military history of the state from its earliest settlement to the present time. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. yw TI'TTLK's UlSTOUY OF common, ami it bciciuuc noi-cssiiry !il).)iiL the ciM of .Inly to imiko uii fNaiuplo of a fort iioar Ossawaloiniu. Some troo state lueii for the work, and on tho morning of August oth, tlio Georgian raiderrt Hceing a woiw fato before tlietn, unle«.s they moved oxpeditiously, all the spoil that had been uceiiinuialed, nul lied for tlu-ir livis. The Htroii-hold, v'neh might have been lii;hl for some lime by courageous men, w;it. fti unee destroyed. Tho foreo whieh had retreated from Ossawatonn.* joined another body on Waslnngton Creek, and precisely similar outrages were reiloubled at a point whieh brought their railius of operaUons oidv a few tniles fn)m Lawrenee. If Col. Sumner had been in eommand, it is probable that he wouhl huvr earried out his former instruetions, or yet, more jjrobably, tho reivatation that he "bore would have relieved him of any such nc'eshity ; but under the n â st condition of all'airs the military were not a\ â llal'le to repress outrages against the settlers. The forlilicatiMh on Washington Creek was called Fort Saunders, ,uid the â >£ Lawrence sent an envoy to the enemy on the 11th of the montii, to procure a cessation of robberies and brutalities by peaceable means. Major Iloyt, a man held in high esteem by his fellow cil zens, was chosen for the visit, and he was well received by (?.ol. Treadwell, the ottioer in command of tho rullians, but on his â¢way homo after the interview, he was waylaid and inurdered, hia body being shot through in all directions. Such an abominable outrage fully justified tho of guerrilla baiuls, and the headiiuarters at Franklin, where the Wakarusa camp once stood, and where the prosla
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