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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 121 (search)
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119.-the massacre at Lawrence, Kansas.
Statement of William Kempf.
Mr. Kempf was an attache of the Provost-Marshal's office at Lawrence.
yesterday, the twenty-first of August, about half-past 4 o'clock, the citizens of Lawrence were surprised to hear a body of cavalry ride rapidly toward the Kansas River.
As soon as the first of these men reached the river by.Massachusetts street and the streets east and west of it, they raised a shout, which was repeated down the streets as far as it was possible to hear.
The citizens, startled by the noise, rushed into the streets to ascertain the cause.
Many of the citizens were then shot down.
With the quickness of lightning, the news spread over town that the accursed Quantrell, with his bushwhackers, was in town.
The surprise was so complete that it was utterly impossible for the citizens to undertake any thing whatever for their defence.
The few who heroically run out with their guns were quickly murdered, as were, in
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 183 (search)
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I., chapter 17 (search)
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I., chapter 20 (search)
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, chapter 1.13 (search)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter 3 : Journeys (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 17. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Development of the free soil idea in the United States . (search)
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America, together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published: description of towns and cities. (ed. George P. Rowell and company), Kansas , Junction City, Davis County, Kansas (search)
Junction City, Davis County, Kansas
a town of 2,000 pop., on Kansas River, 65 miles from Topeka.