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E.B. Whitman, Quarter-Master General of the Kansas Volunteers, issued this formal order in response to the Topeka Legislature's adoption of James Lane's resolution to organize the people in protection of the ballot boxes during the next elections. Whitman, who had just been appointed as Quarter-Master General by Lane under the Ballot Box resolution, requested that each Company of the Volunteers elect their own Quarter-Master to take an inventory of firearms held by their own Company.
Creator: Whitman, E. B. (Edmund Burke), 1812-1883
Date: August 3, 1857
Item Number: 6948
Call Number: James Abbott Coll. #252 Box 2 Folder 10
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 6948
Collections - Manuscript - Abbott, James
Date - 1854-1860 - 1857
Government and Politics - Elections
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Antislavery
Government and Politics - Territorial Government - Constitution Making - Topeka Constitution
Government and Politics - Territorial Government - Elections
Government and Politics - Territorial Government - Political parties - Free State
Home and Family - Daily life - Settlement
Military - Service - Militias
Military - Wars - Bleeding Kansas
Military - Weapons
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Military order
People - Notable Kansans - Conway, Martin Franklin, 1827-1882
People - Notable Kansans - Lane, James Henry, 1814-1866
People - Notable Kansans - Redpath, James, 1833-1891
People - Notable Kansans - Whitman, Edmund Burke, 1812-1883
Places - Cities and towns - Lawrence
Places - Cities and towns - Topeka
Places - Counties - Douglas
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Military records - Military orders
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