The fifth victim floated nearby as John Brown and ... Geary, arrived in Kansas and began to restore order. The last major outbreak of violence was the Marais des Cynges massacre, in which Border ...

(Nebraska Examiner) - An assessment of restoring the historic Mayhew Cabin and John Brown’s Cave site in Nebraska City ... War-era pathway from Iowa to Kansas used by escaping slaves as well ...

Senate Representative Preston Brooks caning Senator Charles Sumner for his speech on "The Crime Against Kansas" is an event that showed how polarized the nation had become over slavery. An event that ...

In December, 1858, John Brown led a few men across the Missouri border from Kansas and attacked two proslavery homesteads, confiscating property and liberating slaves. For Brown, the attack was ...

Sumner would never fully recover. Newspapers across the South celebrated the assault, but when news of the incident reached John Brown's encampment in Kansas, he and his followers were enraged.