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d and other armed bodies to quit the Territory, and calls for a new enrolment of the militia......Sept. 9, 1856 Governor Geary sends a despatch to the President in which he gives a very correct and impartial statement of the condition of affairs in the Territory......Sept. 9, 1856 Governor Robinson, John Brown, Jr., and H. H. Williams, treason prisoners at Lecompton, released on bail......Sept. 10, 1856 Capt. James A. Harvey's Lawrence force, after a six hours fight at Hickory Point, Jefferson county, compel the proslavery men to surrender; later in the day 101 of his men, having disobeyed the governor's orders to disband, are captured by Colonel Cooke, U. S. A., and confined in camp at Lecompton. About twenty of these men were convicted in October of murder, and sentenced to twenty years in the penitentiary)......Sept. 13, 1856 John Brown assists the free-State men at Lawrence in the defence of the town; Governor Geary orders Woodson and Strickler to disband the pro-sla