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Plat of Vernon County, Missouri
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Plat of Vernon County, Missouri which includes county seat Nevada, Missouri. The Battle of the Marmaton River, Battle of Dry Wood Creek, the Sacking of Osceola, and the Sacking of Nevada City occured in this county.
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1886
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Plat of Deerfield Township, Vernon County, Missouri
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Plat of Deerfield Township, Vernon County, Missouri which includes the settlements of Deerfield, Ellis, and Moundville, Missouri. The Battle of Drywood Creek took place on September 2, 1861 southeast of Deerfield along the Big Drywood Creek.
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Date
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1903
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Battle of Pea Ridge
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This map of the Battle of Pea Ridge was originally published in Abraham Lincoln: A History, Vol. V, by John G. Nicolay and John Hay.
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Map
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Date
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n.d.
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Requisition for Missouri Defense Bonds $100 Note
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This is an example of a Requisition for Missouri Defense Bonds $100 note depicting Confederate President Jefferson Davis and the Missouri state seal on the front. The back of the note, ca. 1861-1865, features an ornate green design.
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Currency
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Reynolds's Political Map of the United States
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Printed on map: "Designed to exhibit the comparative area of the free and slave states and the territory open to slavery or freedom by the repeal of the Missouri compromise. With a comparison of the principal statistics of the free and slave states, from the census of 1850." Political map delineating the slave states, free states, and open territories, ca. 1856. The maps were created as political propaganda for the first Republican Party candidate for President, John C. Fremont, whose likeness is visible in the upper left corner of the map.
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Object Type
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Map
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James Montgomery
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Carte de visite portrait of James Montgomery.
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The Kansas Herald of Freedom
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An 1859 issue of the Herald of Freedom. The Herald of Freedom, a prominent Free-State newspaper, was first published in Lawrence, Kansas on October 21, 1854. The press was destroyed in the May 1856 Sacking of Lawrence, but it returned to print in November 1856.
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Date
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March 26, 1859
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Squatter Sovereign
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Description
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The first issue of the Squatter Sovereign. The Squatter Sovereign, the most prominent of the proslavery newspapers in Kansas Territory, was first published in Atchison, Kansas in 1855. It printed some of the most inflammatory proslavery rhetoric in the territory, before ironically being purchased by the antislavery Samuel C. Pomeroy in March 1857. Pomeroy, an affiliate of the Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Society, turned the paper in favor of the Free-State cause before reselling it to John A. Martin, who renamed it Freedom's Champion.
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Newspaper Article
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Date
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February 3, 1855
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Ho for Kansas!
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Description
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One of Benjamin "Pap" Singleton's fliers urging African Americans to leave for Kansas. Ultimately, Singleton's advertisements prompted thousands of individuals and families to leave the South.
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Object Type
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Leaflet
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Date
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March 18, 1878
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Union Men and Their Sufferings in North-Western Missouri
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Description
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This 1864 pamphlet, entitled “Union Men and Their Sufferings in North-Western Missouri,” was written by Major J.M. Bassett, former Provost Marshal-General of the Northwest District of Missouri. Bassett provides a “glance at the history of the Rebellion in Northwest Missouri,” admitting “it may be that my hatred for rebels is too intense, my sympathy for loyal men too strong, to make every sentence I write acceptable to all.” The pamphlet, which features several black-and-white illustrations, was published by the Press of Wynkcop, Hallenbeck, and Thomas in New York, with proceeds from its sale given to The Ladies’ Aid Society of St. Joseph, Missouri.
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Date
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1864
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Map of Douglas County, Kansas
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This map of Douglas County, Kansas Territory was drawn by I. Cooper Stuck in July of 1857. The map is marked with the locations of individual people's land claims.
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Object Type
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Map
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Date
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July 1857
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Hamilton Rowan Gamble
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Photograph of Hamilton Rowan Gamble, former justice of the Missouri Supreme Court and provisional governor of Missouri who replaced then deposed Governor Claiborne Fox Jackson on July 28, 1861.
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Date
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n.d.
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Oath of Loyalty of Stephen Blanchard
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This document establishes that Stephen Blanchard has taken an oath of loyalty to the United States and to the state of Missouri. It declares that Blanchard will support the Constitution and “protect and defend the union of the United States.” The oath is dated October 28, 1867 and is signed by Blanchard, two witnesses, and a clerk of the Holt County Court.
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Object Type
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Government Document
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Date
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October 28, 1867
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$10 Missouri Note
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Description
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This is a ten dollar Confederate note issued in Jefferson City, Missouri and dated January 1, 1864. It states: “Three Years after Date the State of Missouri Will pay Ten Dollars to Bearer with ten per Cent interest.”
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Object Type
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Currency
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Date
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January 1, 1864
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Plat of Iatan, Edgerton, Parkville, et al., Platte County, Missouri
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Description
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A plat of the Platte County towns of Iatan, Edgerton, Parkville, and East Leavenworth, as well as Platte County Township 50 North Range 33 & 34 West. This page is included in an 1877 plat book of Platte County, Missouri.
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Date
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1877
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Nebraska and Kansas
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This color map, entitled “Nebraska and Kansas,” shows those two territories, the territory acquired from Mexico in 1854, and a small map of the continental United States. The map was published in 1854 by J.H. Colton and Co. in New York.
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Object Type
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Map
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Date
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1854
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Title
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Battlegrounds of Price's Raid
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Description
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Maps of the battlefields at "Mine Creek, Oct. 22d 64," "Westport, Oct. 23d 64" "Charlot, Oct. 25th 64," and "Newtonia, Nov. 4th 64," showing the positions of troops, roads, drainage, a few houses, and relief by hachures. Charlot refers to "Charlot's Farm" near Richards, MO. This event is better known as the Battle of the Marmaton River. The Battle of Mine Creek took place south of Pleasanton, KS.
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1865
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