Both battles have been reenacted on the same weekend in the past, Wing said. It is an important Civil War battle in Fort Smith history, and the 1st Kansas Colored Infantry was stationed at Fort Smith ...

Veterans and re-enactors alike from a variety of wars displayed historic battles, which local re-enactors say keep history ...

In his insightful book “A Hell of a Storm: The Battle for Kansas, the End of Compromise, and the Coming of the Civil War,” the historian David S. Brown makes a convincing case for the ...

Historians tend to present “a carefully curated inventory of provocations” when explaining “the collapse of sectional compromise” that led to the Civil War, but that collapse was ...

The late Civil War historian Ed Bearrs called the ... at the Missouri State Archives in Jefferson City, and in Kansas City, site of other battles during the 1864 raid. The final fight of the ...

The issue of slavery divided the United States long before the election of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War. After the Kansas-Nebraska ... a number of bloody battles took place as the last ...

The truce was momentous for Kansas and Missouri, two states whose rivalry traces back to bloody Civil War days. But it also garnered national acclaim from both liberals and conservatives who saw ...

The 1st Kansas Colored had distinguished itself in October 1862 at what is known as the battle of Island Mound ... of Black soldiers in the Civil War and was a Union victory.