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Two days after encouraging his father to visit him at the prisoners' "camp" near Lecompton, John Brown, Jr., wrote to say "I had not better try to meet you just now." He thought things looked "favorable" for the free state prisoners and wrote of what he had heard of the Battle of Fort Titus, which took place that very day, August 16, 1856.
Creator: Brown, Jr., John
Date: August 16, 1856
Item Number: 4298
Call Number: John Brown Coll. #299 Box 1 Folder 17
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 4298
Collections - Manuscript - Brown, John
Date - 1854-1860 - 1856
Government and Politics - Crime and Punishment - Prisons and Jails
Government and Politics - Political Parties - Free Soil
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Antislavery - Abolition
Government and Politics - Territorial Government - Political parties - Free State
Military - Facilities - Forts
Military - Wars - Bleeding Kansas
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Letter
People - Notable Kansans - Brown, John, 1800-1859
People - Notable Kansans - Brown, John, Jr.
Places - Cities and towns - Lecompton
Places - Counties - Douglas
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Letters
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