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Acting territorial governor Hugh S. Walsh writes from Lecompton, Kansas Territory, to Secretary of State Lewis Cass. Walsh requests permission to use $3000 remaining from funds appropriated for the August 1858 election as a means to offer rewards for the capture of James Montgomery, John Brown, and other Free State supporters allegedly engaged in violence in southeastern Kansas Territory.
Creator: Walsh, Hugh Sleight
Date: November 19, 1858
Item Number: 90600
Call Number: James W. Denver Coll. #328 Box 1 Folder 13
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 90600
Collections - Manuscript - Denver, James W.
Date - 1854-1860 - 1858
Government and Politics - Territorial Government - Governors - Walsh, Hugh Sleight (acting)
Military - Wars - Bleeding Kansas
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Letter
People - Notable People - Brown, John, 1800-1859
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Letters
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