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This printed letter written by E. B. Whitman describeds the success of Kansas volunteers in organizing to help freemen and the lack of success with voting lists. The Kansas Volunteers for the Protection of the Ballot Box were a militia formed by free state supporters but were not part of the federal military.
Creator: Whitman, E. B. (Edmund Burke), 1812-1883
Date: October 19, 1857
Item Number: 90195
Call Number: Port Vault K 324 K133or 1857
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 90195
Collections - Library
Date - 1854-1860 - 1857
Government and Politics - Elections
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Antislavery
Military - Service - Militias
Military - Wars - Bleeding Kansas
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Handbill
People - Notable Kansans - Lane, James Henry, 1814-1866
Places - Cities and towns - Lawrence
Places - Counties - Douglas
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Type of Material - Printed materials - Ephemera
http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/90195
