From Lewis Stafford to Kate Newland

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Title: From Lewis Stafford to Kate Newland
Creator: Lewis Stafford
Description: Lewis Stafford writes a letter from Camp Washington near Clinton, Missouri to Kate Newland on July 6, 1861. Stafford, a member of the 1st Kansas Infantry, Company E, tells Newland that Union troops recently took possession of a printing press that had printed a secession journal. He says that Clinton used to be a “hot bed of secession” but “secession in this place is now pretty generally squelched out.”
Date: July 6, 1861
Local Subject: Kansas military units
Battle for Missouri, 1861-1865 -- Military History of Missouri and Kansas
Women
People: Lewis Stafford
Geographic Subject: Henry County, Missoui
Object Type: Letter
Owning Organization: Kansas Historical Society
Location: Newland Coll.
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