Col.
Henry Theodore Titus
in
Bleeding Kansas (1856)
Click
on the pictures
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| The Titus homestead
(marked in red) one mile south of Lecompton, Kansas |
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Titus
and pro-slavery forces going to attack Lawrence.
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The Free State Hotel at Lawrence, destroyed
by
pro-slavery forces that included Titus,
May 21, 1856. |
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| Titus
captured at his Kansas cabin in 1856. |
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| Constitution
Hall, Lecompton, Kansas |
The artillery attack
on "Fort Titus" Aug. 16, 1856. |
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| Titus' pearl-handled
sword. Kansas Museum of History. |
Titus was freed
in exchange for this Abbott Howitzer. |
Mary
E. Titus property deed, Lecompton, Kansas
The
Englishman in Kansas (1857)
The
University of Kansas and the Sack of Lawrence: A Problem of Intellectual
Honesty
The
Kanzas City Outrage (April 24, 1858)
The
War in Nicaragua (William Walker)
Transactions
of the Kansas State Historical Society, 1883-85 (Vol. III)
"Death
to All Yankees and Traitors in Kansas": The Squatter Sovereign and the
Defense of Slavery in Kansas (Kansas History, Spring 1993)
From
Slavery in Missouri to Freedom in Kansas: The Influx of Black Fugitives
and Contrabands Into Kansas, 1854·1865 (Kansas History,
Spring 1989)
Documents:
Bleeding Kansas and Spanish Cuba in 1857: A Postscript (Kansas History,
Winter 1988-1989)
"ADVOCATE THE FREEDOM
OF WHITE MEN, AS WELL AS THAT OF NEGROES": THE KANSAS FREE STATE AND ANTISLAVERY
WESTERNERS IN TERRITORIAL KANSAS (Kansas
History, Summer 1997)
Colonel
Harvey and His Forty Thieves (The Mississippi Valley Historical
Review, June 1932)
Comprehensive
Index 1875-1930: Collections, Biennial Reports, and Publucations of the
Kansas State Historical Society
Kansas.
New York Tribune, Nov. 10, 1856

