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Portrait of Captain Thomas John Wood, U.S. Army, First Cavalry station at Fort Scott in 1858. Wood and a deputy U.S. Marshall arrested members of Colonel Harvey's free-state party after the Battle of Hickory Point. The captives were taken to Lecompton where they were imprisoned and charged with murder. About twenty of Harvey's soldiers were tried, convicted, and sentenced.
Date: 1860
Item Number: 4075
Call Number: B Wood Thomas John
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 4075
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Military
Collections - Photograph
Date - 1854-1860 - 1860
Government and Politics - Crime and Punishment - Law enforcement officers
Government and Politics - Crime and Punishment - Prisoners
Government and Politics - Political Parties - Free Soil
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Antislavery - Abolition
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Pro-Slavery
Government and Politics - Territorial Government - Political parties - Free State
Government and Politics - Territorial Government - Political parties - Proslavery - Law and Order
Home and Family - Daily life - Settlement
Military - Service - Army - Cavalry
Military - Wars - Bleeding Kansas
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
People - Notable Kansans - Harvey, James A., -1858
People - Notable People - Wood, Thomas John, 1823-1906
Places - Cities and towns - Fort Scott
Places - Cities and towns - Lecompton
Places - Counties - Bourbon
Places - Counties - Douglas
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Type of Material - Photographs
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