Andrew Brownlow

On August 1, 1862, Andrew Brownlow writes from Sugar Creek Grove, Buchanan County, Missouri to Missouri Gov. Hamilton R. Gamble. Brownlow describes the "troubled" state of affairs in Buchanan County, predicting that recent outrages "will make desperate men out of good citizens." He accuses Gen. Loan of "playing in to the hands of the Kansas thieves" and predicts that unless Gamble "does something to protect the people on the Border all there property will…be taken to Kansas."

August 1, 1862

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Battle for Missouri, 1861-1865 -- Military History of Missouri and Kansas
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Andrew Brownlow
James Gillpatrick Blunt
James Henry Lane
Hamilton R Gamble
William Clarke Quantrill

Buchanan County, Missouri
Dekalb County, Missouri

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Gamble Papers, B.10 f.2 June 1-Sept. 12, 1862

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