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Title: Camp Blood, near Pilot Knob, Missouri
Description: This sketch by a volunteer correspondent, originally published in Harper’s Weekly on September 21, 1861, depicts Camp Blood, near Pilot Knob, Missouri. Pilot Knob Mountain is shown to the right as it was before heavy ore excavation during and after the Civil War. Camp Blood became Fort Davidson in 1863 when permanent fortification was constructed.
Object Type: Image
Date: September 21, 1861

Title: John Caldwell Calhoun
Description: John C. Calhoun, President of the Lecompton Constitutional Convention.
Object Type: Image
Date: n.d.

Title: Newell W. Spicer and Friend Dick
Description: This portrait, taken ca. 1861-1865, depicts Newell W. Spicer and his friend Dick. Both served in the First Kansas Volunteer Infantry.
Object Type: Image

Title: Abraham Lincoln, Candidate for U.S. President, Before Delivering His Cooper Union Address in New York City
Description: Photograph of presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln prior to his Cooper Union speech, one of the most critical in his successful campaign for the presidency.
Object Type: Image
Date: February 27, 1860

Title: John Doy and Rescue Party
Description: Photograph taken by Amon Gilbert DaLee in Lawrence, Kansas Territory in the summer of 1859 depicting Dr. John Doy, his son Charles, and his rescue party, which freed him from the St. Joseph, MO jail on July 23, 1859, where he was being held on charges of abducting slaves.
Object Type: Image
Date: 1859

Title: William Jenkins
Description: This sepia carte de visite depicts Capt. William Jenkins, who served in Company C, Seventh Kansas Volunteer Cavalry. The photograph, ca. 1861-1865, was produced by Armstead & White of Corinth, Mississippi.
Object Type: Image

Title: St. Joseph, Missouri
Description: This bird's eye view of Saint Joseph, Missouri was created by A. Ruger and published by the Merchants Lithographing Co. in 1868.
Object Type: Image
Date: 1868

Title: Gen. Hancock with Officers
Description: Black and white photograph of Generals Winfield S. Hancock, Francis C. Barlow, David B. Birney, and John Gibbon.
Object Type: Image

Title: Kansas - Col. Sumner Arriving at Constitution Hall
Description: Wood engraving of Col. Sumner dispersing the Topeka Legislature on July 4, 1856. The Topeka legislature met to draft a request to Congress for the admission of Kansas as a free state, but federal soldiers under command of Colonel Edwin Vose Sumner dispersed the assembly. The Topeka Constitution was approved by the U.S. House of Representatives, but the U.S. Senate rejected it by two votes.
Object Type: Image
Date: July 26, 1856

Title: The Ruins of Lawrence, Kansas
Description: An illustration of the ruins of Lawrence, Kansas after Quantrill's Raid on August 21, 1863, originally published in Harper's Weekly.
Object Type: Image
Date: September 19, 1863

Title: Massachusetts Street, Lawrence, Kansas
Description: Stereograph by Alexander Gardner depicting Massachusetts Street in downtown Lawrence, Kansas. Founded by members of the Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Society (later renamed the New England Emigrant Aid Company) in 1854, Lawrence was a center of Free-State activism during the Border War.
Object Type: Image
Date: 1867

Title: Hon. George S. Boutwell of Mass.
Description: Black and white glass plate negative of George S. Boutwell, Senator and Representative from Massachusetts and the first Commissioner of Internal Revenue under President Lincoln.
Object Type: Image

Title: Gen. Samuel R. Curtis
Description: Black and white portrait of General Samuel R. Curtis, seated and in uniform. One of the first Republicans elected to Congress representing Iowa's 1st congressional district, Curtis resigned his seat in 1861 to join the Union Army. Curtis commanded Union forces to several victories during the Civil War, including at the Battle of Pea Ridge and the Battle of Westport.
Object Type: Image

Title: Andrew Johnson
Description: Lithograph of Andrew Johnson, circa 1865.
Object Type: Image

Title: Pony Express Rider
Description: Lloyd Branson painting of a mail carrier for the Pony Express.
Object Type: Image

Title: Charles Sumner
Description: Lithograph of Senator Charles Sumner. The nation was polarized after Representative Preston Brooks (Democrat, South Carolina) caned antislavery Senator Charles Sumner (Republican, Massachusetts) nearly to death in the U.S. Senate chambers on May 22, 1856. Sumner delivered an anti-slavery speech called "The Crime against Kansas" two days before, and he spent the next three years recovering from his injuries. Southerners sent Brooks canes as a show of solidarity on the slavery issue.
Object Type: Image

Title: Saline County Court House at Marshall, Missouri
Description: A drawing of the Saline County Court House in Marshall, Missouri, included in an 1876 plat book of Saline County, Missouri.
Object Type: Image
Date: 1876

Title: John Brown
Description: Photograph showing three-quarter length portrait of John Brown, with beard, facing slightly right.
Object Type: Image
Date: 1859

Title: Missouri Tasting Secession Soup, and Gets Burnt! and Thinks She Won't Go In
Description: Political cartoon commenting on the lack of support for secession in Missouri.
Object Type: Image
Date: n.d.

Title: Western House, or Pro-Slavery Hotel, Fort Scott, Kansas
Description: A crude illustration of the Western House, also known as the Pro-Slavery Hotel, that burned on December 16, 1858 during James Montgomery's raid on Fort Scott, Kansas.
Object Type: Image
Date: n.d.

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

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