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Title: Battle of Wilson's Creek
Description: This sketch, originally published in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper on August 24, 1861, depicts the Battle of Wilson's Creek. The caption states: "Great Battle of Wilson's Creek, near Springfield, Missouri. Between 5,500 Union troops under Generals Lyon and Siegel, and 23,000 rebels under Generals McCullough and Price, August 10th, 1861 -From a sketch by our special artist.-"
Object Type: Image
Date: August 24, 1861

Title: The Cabinet of the Confederate States at Montgomery
Description: Harper's Weekly illustration of President Jefferson Davis and the Confederate Cabinet.
Object Type: Image
Date: 1861

Title: Union Refugees from Western Missouri Coming into St. Louis
Description: This image, entitled "Union Refugees from Western Missouri Coming into St. Louis," appeared on the cover of the December 28, 1861 issue of Harper's Weekly.
Object Type: Image
Date: December 28, 1861

Title: Members of the Missouri State Guard
Description: Photograph of two members of the Missouri State Guard taken in May, 1861.
Object Type: Image
Date: May, 1861

Title: Andrew J. Link
Description: This carte de visite depicts Andrew J. Link, who served in the Fifth Kansas Volunteer Cavalry. The photograph was produced ca. 1861-1865.
Object Type: Image

Title: Confederate Battle Flag
Description: Confederate battle flag from the Battle of Gettysburg fought in July, 1863. The Confederate battle flag, featuring a variation of the cross of St. Andrew, replaced the "Stars and Bars" Confederate national flag on the battlefield to distinguish Confederate armies from Union armies flying the "Stars and Stripes" during the confusion and chaos of battle.
Object Type: Image
Date: 1861

Title: Main Street, Glasgow, Howard County, Missouri
Description: Photocopy of a postcard from 1864 showing a view of Main Street, Glasgow, Howard County, Missouri.
Object Type: Image
Date: 1864

Title: Constitution Hall, Lecompton, Kansas
Description: Photograph of Constitution Hall, site of the Lecompton Constitutional Convention on January 12, 1857. Constitution Hall was built in 1856 and restored in 1991.
Object Type: Image
Date: 1933

Title: Andrew H. Reeder
Description: Portrait of Andrew H. Reeder, first governor of the Kansas Territory.
Object Type: Image
Date: n.d.

Title: John Brown Brought Out for Execution
Description: Pencil drawing by Albert Berghaus of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper depicting Abolitionist John Brown being brought out of jail in Charles Town, Virgina, to be executed for his failed raid on Harpers Ferry.
Object Type: Image

Title: Lydia Maria Francis Child
Description: Silhouette of Lydia Maria Francis Child by Auguste Edouart, 1841. Child published the poem, "The Kansas Emigrants," in the New York Daily Tribune on October 23, 1856, in reponse to the caning of Senator Charles Sumner by Representative Preston Brooks.
Object Type: Image
Date: 1841

Title: Thomas Archer
Description: This carte de visite depicts Thomas Archer, who served in the Fifth Kansas Volunteer Cavalry. The photograph was produced ca. 1861-1865.
Object Type: Image

Title: The Arrest of Governor Robinson by Marshall Donaldson
Description: Illustration of the arrest of Governor Charles Robinson by Marshall Donaldson in Lexington, Missouri on May 10, 1856. Charles Robinson, then considered the Kansas Territorial Governor by the Free-Staters' illegitimate Topeka legislature, was arrested for treason in Lexington, Missouri due to his faux "governorship" and his denouncements of the proslavery "Bogus Legislature." He was imprisoned at Lecompton, Kansas before being released on September 10, 1856. He was finally acquitted of the charges of treason on August 20, 1857. This image was originally published in the 1856 publication of "True History of the Kansas Wars" by O. N. Merrill.
Object Type: Image
Date: 1856

Title: P.W. Shannon
Description: This carte de visite depicts P.W. Shannon, who served in Company A, Fifth Kansas Volunteer Cavalry. The photograph was produced ca. 1861-1865.
Object Type: Image

Title: Petersburg, Va. Bomb-Proof Shelter in Federal Lines
Description: Black and white photograph of a Union fortification at the Siege of Petersburg.
Object Type: Image

Title: Siege of Atlanta
Description: L. Prang & Co. lithograph print of the Siege of Atlanta as painted by Thure de Thulstrup, circa 1888.
Object Type: Image

Title: The Burning of Osceola, Missouri
Description: An illustration of James Lane's Sacking of Osceola on September 22, 1861, as published in "The Border Outlaws" (1880) by James W. Buel.
Object Type: Image

Title: Sherman's March to the Sea
Description: Engraving of Sherman's March to the Sea, by Alexander Hay Ritchie.
Object Type: Image

Title: Payne Jones
Description: Charcoal portrait of Payne Jones in hat, shirt, and pullover typical of Quantrill's guerrillas trimmed with buttons along the shoulders, V neck, and tops of pockets. Jones was part of Quantrill's raid on Lawrence, Kansas, August 21, 1863, and the Centralia, Missouri, massacre on September 27, 1864. After the war, he became a member of the James-Younger gang. According to the "Missouri Republican," November 11, 1867, Jones was shot November 6, 1867, during a robbery attempt.
Object Type: Image

Title: Fort Riley
Description: This stereograph of Fort Riley, Kansas was taken by Alexander Gardner. Gardner titles the image, "Fort Riley. No longer an outpost, Kansas. 420 miles west of St. Louis, Mo."
Object Type: Image
Date: 1867

Civil War on the Western Border: The Missouri-Kansas Conflict, 1854-1865

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