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1856 Davis S. Hoyt, a free-State man, is murdered near a pro-slavery camp, called Fort Saunders, about 12 miles southwest of Lawrence......Aug. 12, 1856 Fort Saunders, the Georgia camp at Washington Creek, taken by free-State men......Aug. 15, 1856 House passes a bill for a survey of the southern boundary of Kansas......Aug. 15, 1856 Titus's Fort, near Lecompton, taken by Lawrence men with twenty pro-slavery prisoners, Henry J. Shombre, free-State, is mortally wounded......Aug. Aug. 15, 1856 Titus's Fort, near Lecompton, taken by Lawrence men with twenty pro-slavery prisoners, Henry J. Shombre, free-State, is mortally wounded......Aug. 16, 1856 Governor Shannon makes a second treaty of peace with Lawrence, and exchanges some free-State prisoners......Aug. 17, 1856 Maj.-Gen. William P. Richardson calls on the 1st and 2d brigades of northern Kansas......Aug. 18, 1856 Murder of Hoppe, free-State, by Fugit, pro-slavery, at Leavenworth, on a bet of $6 against a pair of boots that in less than two hours he would bring into Leavenworth a Yankee scalp. (He was afterwards tried and acquitted)......Aug. 19, 1856 Governor S