From Persifor Smith to M.C. Dickey

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Title: From Persifor Smith to M.C. Dickey
Alternate Title: From Persifor Smith to M.C. Dickey and Others, Conductors of Emigrating Companies
Creator: Persifor Smith
Description: This letter, dated July 23, 1856, is from Persifor Smith, a U.S. Army Major at Fort Leavenworth, to M.C. Dickey and “others, conductors of emigrating companies.” Smith responds to a letter in which Dickey and the others request military protection from armed bodies guarding the Kansas border. Smith denies their request: “I have no evidence that any parties are in arms to oppose you . . . I cannot act on your vague suspicions.”
Date: July 23, 1856
Local Subject: Bleeding Kansas, Bloodletting Missouri
Guerrillas
People: Persifor Smith
Franklin Pierce
James Henry Lane
Geographic Subject: Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas
Topeka, Kansas
Shawnee County, Kansas
Leavenworth, Kansas
Leavenworth County, Kansas
Miami County, Kansas
Douglas County, Kansas
Riley County, Kansas
Object Type: Letter
Owning Organization: Kansas Historical Society
Location: Ross, Edmund G. Coll. #491, Folder 2: Correspondence 1856-1862, Item 4
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