From Abishai Stowell to "Dear Sister"

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Title: From Abishai Stowell to "Dear Sister"
Creator: Abishai Stowell
Description: On September 24, 1863, Abishai Stowell writes from camp in Springfield, Missouri to his sister. Stowell says he has been at home on furlough and that the family is "tolerably well." He reports that there is great excitement in Kansas about William Quantrill: "he burned Lawrence a week ago last Friday & killed about two hundred (200) citizens[.] The people blame Gens. Schofield & Ewing for letting them into Kansas."
Date: September 24, 1863
Local Subject: Battle for Missouri, 1861-1865 -- Military History of Missouri and Kansas
Kansas military units
Women
Surviving a Guerrilla War
Guerrillas
Quantrill's Raid on Lawrence
People: Abishai Stowell
William Clarke Quantrill
Thomas E Ewing
Geographic Subject: Lawrence, Kansas
Douglas County, Kansas
Object Type: Letter
Owning Organization: Kansas Historical Society
Location: Abishai Stowell, 1862-1865
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