This black and white photograph, taken circa 1890, depicts Charles Otis Fitch, son of Edward and Sarah Fitch. He was born in Lawrence, Kansas in 1860. At the age of three, he survived Quantrill’s Raid on Lawrence, but his family’s house was burned down and his father was killed in the attack.

Battle for Missouri, 1861-1865 -- Military History of Missouri and Kansas
Bleeding Kansas, Bloodletting Missouri
Picturing the War
Surviving a Guerrilla War
Border Ruffians
Bushwhackers
Guerrillas
Jayhawkers
Quantrill's Raid on Lawrence

Lawrence, Kansas
Douglas County, Kansas

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Watkins Community Museum of History

88.40.3; C451.7

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