Kansas's War: The Civil War in Documents

Kansas's War: The Civil War in Documents
ISBN-10
0821419366
ISBN-13
9780821419366
Category
History
Pages
284
Language
English
Published
2011-02-15
Publisher
Ohio University Press
Author
Pearl T. Ponce

Description

When the Civil War broke out in April 1861, Kansas was in a unique position. It had been a state for mere weeks, and already its residents were intimately acquainted with civil strife. Kansas’s War illuminates the new state’s main preoccupations: the internal struggle for control of policy and patronage; border security; and issues of race—especially efforts to come to terms with the burgeoning African American population and Native Americans’ coninuing claims to nearly one-fifth of the state’s land. These documents demonstrate how politicians, soldiers, and ordinary Kansans were transformed by the war.

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