Battle of Black Jack

Black Jack Battleground. Courtesy of the Kansas Historical Society.

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In the unofficial first battle of the Civil War (nearly five years prior to the war's beginning), abolitionist John Brown and his followers attacked the forces of a proslavery settler, Henry C. Pate, who held two of Brown's sons captive. Brown won the battle, captured 23 prisoners, and exchanged them for his sons. 

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