Col. Henry Theodore Titus
in Bleeding Kansas (1856)

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The Titus homestead (marked in red) one mile south of Lecompton, Kansas

 


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Location of Fort Titus, one mile south of Lecompton, Kansas
Fort Titus located 400 yards west of Douglas County Road 1029, Kansas

 

Fort Titus was 400 yards west of Douglas County Road 1029.
The abolitionist artillery attack on "Fort Titus" Aug. 16, 1856.

 


Titus captured at his Kansas log house in 1856. Titus' pearl-handled sword was seized by James Harvey as a trophy.

 
 
Titus' pearl-handled sword and South Carolina flag. 
Kansas Museum of History, Topeka.
Titus was freed by abolitionists in exchange for the Abbott Howitzer.
 

 
 
Freedom's Frontier National Historica Area, Lawrence, Kansas


Mary E. Titus property deed, Lecompton, Kansas, Nov. 4, 1856

Henry T. Titus property deed, Kansas City, Mo., March 23, 1858
 

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