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.Aug. 10, 1861 Battle with Confederates at Dry Wood......Sept. 2, 1861 Platte River Bridge massacre, Barclay Coppoe and other Iowa soldiers killed......Sept. 3, 1861 Vote for State capital stood: Topeka, 7,996; Lawrence, 5,291; scattering, 1,184......Nov. 5, 1861 Confederate guerilla chief Quantrill makes a raid into Johnson county, burning Shawneetown......Oct. 17, 1862 Quantrill, with 300 men, dashes into the streets of Lawrence at daylight and kills about 200 men......Aug. 21, 1863 Massacre at Baxter Springs, Kan., of eighty men, the cavalry escort of General Blunt, by Quantrill and 600 guerillas......Oct. 6, 1863 A wagon-train loaded with Fort Scott coal arrives in Leavenworth......Jan. 30, 1864 Confederate Gen. Sterling Price advances with troops towards Kansas, Oct. 1, and enters Linn county......Oct. 24, 1864 Battles near Mound City, Little Osage, and Charlotte......Oct. 25, 1864 Census: White, 127,270; colored, 12,527; Indian, 382......May, 1865