Senator James H. Lane heads a group of Kansans, known as the Frontier Guard, to protect the White House and President Abraham Lincoln in Washington, D.C. until Union soldiers can take over those duties.
Fresh off a victory at Wilson's Creek, the Missouri State Guard under command of Major General Sterling "Pap" Price advances toward Fort Scott, in southeastern Kansas.
Free-State settler and future U.S. Senator from Kansas, James H. Lane, shoots and kills Gaius Jenkins over a land dispute. The dispute had divided the Lawrence Free-Stater community, with each man having his own supporters.
James H. Lane leads a force of jayhawkers against Hickory Point, a proslavery settlement in Jefferson County, Kansas, that recently supported an attack against Grasshopper Falls.
