Download or read book Jayhawkers written by Bryce Benedict and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No person excited greater emotion in Kansas than James Henry Lane, the U.S. senator who led a volunteer brigade in 1861–1862. In fighting numerous skirmishes, liberating hundreds of slaves, burning portions of four towns, and murdering half a dozen men, Lane and his brigade garnered national attention as the saviors of Kansas and the terror of Missouri. This first book-length study of the “jayhawkers,” as the men of Lane’s brigade were known, takes a fresh look at their exploits and notoriety. Bryce Benedict draws on a wealth of previously unexploited sources, including letters by brigade members, to dramatically re-create the violence along the Kansas-Missouri border and challenge some of the time-honored depictions of Lane’s unit as bloodthirsty and indiscriminately violent. Bringing to life an era of guerillas, bushwhackers, and slave stealers, Jayhawkers also describes how Lane’s brigade was organized and equipped and provides details regarding staff and casualties. Assessing the extent to which the jayhawkers followed accepted rules of warfare, Benedict argues that Lane set a precedent for the Union Army’s eventual adoption of “hard” tactics toward civilians. An entertaining story rich in detail, Jayhawkers will captivate scholars and history enthusiasts as it sheds new light on the unfettered violence on this western fringe of the Civil War.
Download or read book James Henry Lane Papers written by James Henry Lane and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book James Henry Lane written by William Elsey Connelley and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book JAMES HENRY LANE THE GRIM CHIEFTAIN OF KANSAS written by WILLIAM ELSEY. CONNELLEY and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Man of Douglas Man of Lincoln written by Ian Michael Spurgeon and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Focusing on the last twelve years of James Henry Lane's life, Spurgeon delves into key aspects of his career such as his time as an Indiana congressman, his role in Kansas's constitutional conventions, and his evolving stance on slavery to challenge prevailing views on Lane's place in history"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book James Henry Lane written by William E. Connelley and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book James Henry Lane and the War for Southern Independence written by Kenneth Edward Phillips and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book James Henry Lane the Grim Chieftain of Kansas written by William Elsey Connelley and published by Andesite Press. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book James Henry Lane the Grim Chieftain of Kansas Primary Source Edition written by William Elsey Connelley and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2014-02-23 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Download or read book James Henry Lane the Grim Chieftain of Kansas Classic Reprint written by William Elsey Connelley and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-17 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from James Henry Lane, the Grim Chieftain of Kansas States are not great Except as men may make them; Men are not great except they do and dare. But States, like men, Have destinies that take them That bear them on, not knowing why or where. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book JAMES HENRY LANE THE GRIM CHIE written by William Elsey 1855-1930 Connelley and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-27 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jim Lane written by Robert Collins and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the Grim Chieftain, who led the forces of popular sovereignty during the period of Bleeding Kansas.
Download or read book General James Henry Lane 1833 1907 written by George Petrie and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Statement of James H Lane in Support of His Application to the Senate of the United States written by James Henry Lane and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Soldiers in the Army of Freedom written by Ian Michael Spurgeon and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-10-22 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was 1862, the second year of the Civil War, though Kansans and Missourians had been fighting over slavery for almost a decade. For the 250 Union soldiers facing down rebel irregulars on Enoch Toothman’s farm near Butler, Missouri, this was no battle over abstract principles. These were men of the First Kansas Colored Infantry, and they were fighting for their own freedom and that of their families. They belonged to the first black regiment raised in a northern state, and the first black unit to see combat during the Civil War. Soldiers in the Army of Freedom is the first published account of this largely forgotten regiment and, in particular, its contribution to Union victory in the trans-Mississippi theater of the Civil War. As such, it restores the First Kansas Colored Infantry to its rightful place in American history. Composed primarily of former slaves, the First Kansas Colored saw major combat in Missouri, Indian Territory, and Arkansas. Ian Michael Spurgeon draws upon a wealth of little-known sources—including soldiers’ pension applications—to chart the intersection of race and military service, and to reveal the regiment’s role in countering white prejudices by defying stereotypes. Despite naysayers’ bigoted predictions—and a merciless slaughter at the Battle of Poison Spring—these black soldiers proved themselves as capable as their white counterparts, and so helped shape the evolving attitudes of leading politicians, such as Kansas senator James Henry Lane and President Abraham Lincoln. A long-overdue reconstruction of the regiment’s remarkable combat record, Spurgeon’s book brings to life the men of the First Kansas Colored Infantry in their doubly desperate battle against the Confederate forces and skepticism within Union ranks.
Download or read book A Family Affair written by James Robert Bird and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 926 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historian Craig Miner suggests that territorial Kansas between 1854 and 1861 was "a nursery of weird and manic figures." Foremost among the weird and manic figures of Kansas history stands James Henry Lane, formerly a U.S. congressman from Indiana, and destined to become one of Kansas' first pair of senators. Writing at the midpoint of the twentieth century, Albert Castel pronounced Jim Lane "the most colorful and fascinating personality in the history of Kansas," adding that "Very likely, too, he was mentally unbalanced and paranoid." Yet, James H. Lane never set foot on Kansas soil until he was well into his fortieth year of life. Thus, the individual who by 1860 earned a national reputation as "the Grim Chieftain of Kansas" hardly sprang full-blown from the prairies of his adopted state. He was, rather, haunted by a tragic past that has been largely overlooked by historians. So traumatic were the events that predated Jim Lane's arrival in Kansas that they arguably determined his behavior after he settled in the territory, and ultimately became part of the mix of variables that led to his suicide shortly after the Civil War. In 1854, Lane's mother, Mary Foote Howse Lane, warned her son, "What a man is at forty, he will continue to be through the remainder of his life." The present study aspires to shed light on what made Jim Lane the man he was as he celebrated his fortieth birthday, just under a year before he immigrated to Kansas. Lane biographer Ian Spugeon recently noted "the habit of historians to focus almost solely on Lane in Kansas," as well as a need "to interpret Lane's actions in the broader context of the collapse of the second-party system and the sectional conflict." Aspiring to help fill that gap, the present study suggests that a leitmotif of the Lane story involves the inception, as much as the collapse, of America's second two-party system. Moreover, the saga of Jim Lane before Kansas was essentially a family affair. Enablers so far largely neglected by historians inspired and helped him along the way.
