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This item contains letters to James L. McDowell. Correspondents include Edmund G. Ross, Alexander Caldwell, Thomas Carney, Senator Preston Plumb, General Thomas Ewing, members and staff of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, individuals working for the Kansas State Fair Association, staff of the Department of the Interior - General Land Office, and others. The letters from Thomas Carney focus on topics such as the Fugitive Slave Law, the Kansas militia, and Missouri border trouble. McDowell held a number of public positions in his lifetime, from notary public to city mayor to U.S. Marshal and major-general of the Kansas militia (including organizing to defend the state during Price's Raid in 1864) to postmaster for Leavenworth. He was also actively interested in agriculture, helping to organize the first and later state fairs for Kansas.
Date: 1860-1892
Item Number: 225880
Call Number: James L. McDowell Coll. #425, Box 1 Folder 3
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 225880
Collections - Manuscript - McDowell, James L.
Date - 1854-1860 - 1860
Date - 1861-1869
Date - 1870s
Date - 1880s
Date - 1890s
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Antislavery
Government and Politics - State Government - Governors - Carney, Thomas
Military - Service - Militias - Kansas State Militia Second Regiment
Military - Wars - Civil War - Kansas Units - State Militia
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Correspondence
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Letter
People - Notable Kansans - Caldwell, Alexander
People - Notable Kansans - Carney, Thomas, 1824-1888
People - Notable Kansans - Coburn, Foster Dwight
People - Notable Kansans - Ewing, Thomas, Jr.
People - Notable Kansans - Plumb, Preston B., 1837-1891
People - Notable Kansans - Ross, Edmund G. (Edmund Gibson), 1826-1907
Thematic Time Period - Civil War, 1861 - 1865
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Letters
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