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Author Fitch, Edward Payson, 1832?-1863.

Title Postmarked, bleeding Kansas : letters from the birthplace of the Civil War / letters by Edward and Sarah Fitch ; foreword by Chad Lawhorn.

Imprint [Lawrence, Kan.] : Purple Duck Press, ©2013.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Special Collections Baron  978.165 F552Bf 2013    ---  Lib Use Only
Description 281 pages ; 23 cm
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volume nc rdacarrier
Note "Pioneer dispatches from Edward and Sarah Fitch."--Cover.
Summary "Edward Fitch and his wife, Sarah, wrote more than 150 letters [home to Massachusetts], from the turmoil that surrounded Douglas County, Kansas, as Jayhawkers and Missouri ruffians battled over whether Kansas would enter the Union as a slave or free state. Their letters ranged from the ordinary pioneer struggles to the atrocities of war, culminated by William Quantrill's bloody 1863 raid on Lawrence. ... [Their] letters tell an important story of an ordinary family taking an extraordinary stand for a belief that would change a country."--Page 4 of cover.
Subject Fitch, Edward Payson, 1832?-1863 -- Correspondence.
Stevens, Sarah Anna Wilmarth Fitch -- Correspondence.
Fitch family.
Fitch family. (OCoLC)fst00220145
American letters -- Kansas -- Lawrence.
Frontier and pioneer life -- Kansas.
American letters. (OCoLC)fst00807110
Frontier and pioneer life. (OCoLC)fst00935370
Kansas. (OCoLC)fst01204323
Kansas -- Lawrence. (OCoLC)fst01212060
Genre/Form Personal correspondence. (OCoLC)fst01919948
Added Author Stevens, Sarah Anna Wilmarth Fitch.
Lawhorn, Chad.
ISBN 9781492110613 (pbk.)
1492110612 (pbk.)

 
    
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