David Rice Atchison

By Matthew Reeves, University of Missouri-Kansas City

Benjamin F. Stringfellow was a Missouri lawyer, civic organizer, and proslavery advocate. He was a key figure in the Platte County Self-Defensive Association, a proslavery organization that argued the expansion of slavery into Kansas was an essential requirement to maintain the “peculiar institution” in Missouri and throughout the South.

Battle of Liberty

Tue, 09/17/1861

Following the secessionist Missouri State Guard's victory at Lexington, former Senator (and now General) David Rice Atchison leads Missouri State Guardsmen on an attack against Liberty, Missouri.

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