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The Lawrence Massacre, Part One
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"KANSAS COLLECTION BOOKS
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The Lawrence Massacre
The following work has been made available by the Kansas Collection of Kenneth
Spencer Research Library and the Department of History of the University of
Kansas. The electronic copy was prepared by Mr. Alec Miller.
Lawrence, Kansas
30 June 1994
THE
LAWRENCE MASSACRE
BY A BAND OF MISSOURI RUFFIANS UNDER QUANTRELL
AUGUST 21, 1863
150 MEN KILLED EIGHTY WOMEN MADE WIDOWS AND
250 CHILDREN MADE ORPHANS
PRICE TEN CENTS
J. S. BROUGHTON
PUBLISHER
LAWRENCE KANSAS
INTRODUCTION.
It is a fact not generally known that no complete account of this massacre has ever
been published. The letter furnished by Rev. R. Cordley to the "Congressional
Record" a few days after the event and before all the facts and incidents had
become known, and which was republished in Boughton & McAllister's Directory of
Lawrence 1865, is about all the literature we can find in regard to it. Mr.
Cordley's letter is made the basis of this history, to which is added the personal
experience and observations of a number of residents who providentially escaped the
general slaughter and who now recall the terrible events of those few hours as
though they occurred yesterday.
We would like to give the personal experience of every one of the survivors and
especially record in detail the deeds of heroism enacted by the brave women of
Lawrence who in that fearful hour saved many a precious life, and extinguished the
flames in nearly a hundred burning dwellings. But volumes would be required for
such an undertaking.
THREATENINGS.
The destruction of Lawrence had no doubt been long contemplated by the rebels of
the border. ever since the war had commenced rumors had been constantly
circulating of the maturing of such a purpose. Each rumor called forth efforts for
defence. The people had become so a"
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