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The Secret Danites
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Abolitionist of the Most Dangerous Kind
A controversial character largely known (as depicted in the movie Glory) as a Union colonel who led Black soldiers in the Civil War, James Montgomery (1814–71) waged a far more personal and radical war against slavery than popular history suggests. It is the true story of this militant abolitionist that Todd Mildfelt and David D. Schafer tell in Abolitionist of the Most Dangerous Kind, summoning a life fiercely lived in struggle against the expansion of slavery into the West and during the Civil War. This book follows a harrowing path through the turbulent world of the 1850s and 1860s as Montgomery, with the fervor of an Old Testament prophet, inflicts destructive retribution on Southern s...
Almost to Freedom
"In 1858, a slave named Jim Daniels was living in Missouri. He had a wife and two children, and other child on the way. His owner had died and his family was about to be split up and separated. Jim decided to ask for help. He was given permission to travel to Fort Scott, Kansas to sell homemade brooms but he also found time to look for the camp of the notorious abolitionist John Brown and seek his help. This book is based on a true story that took place during the winter of 1858-1859. The raid that was initiated by Jim Daniels led to the liberation of eleven fugitive slaves. For 150 years this has been the best-known story of the Underground Railroad on the western frontier, but historians often ignored the four weeks the freedom seekers were hidden on the Kansas prairie. In this novel, young Billy Samuels, who lives near Berea, Kansas discovers the fugitives and has to decide what he id going to do. Will he help them or not?"--back cover.
Man of Douglas, Man of Lincoln
"Focusing on the last twelve years of James Henry Lane's life, Spurgeon delves into key aspects of his career such as his time as an Indiana congressman, his role in Kansas's constitutional conventions, and his evolving stance on slavery to challenge prevailing views on Lane's place in history"--Provided by publisher.
Jim Lane
As the life of U.S. senator James Lane unfolded on the Kansas frontier, so did his saintly and dastardly deeds. Some called him a murderer while others affectionately called him a good politician. Carefully preserving the character of the misunderstood senator, this book tells the untold and largely forgotten story of the controversial Civil War-era figure. James H."the Grim Chieftain" Lane was the most powerful politician west of the Mississippi River during the Civil War. Born in 1814, he spent his early life in military service during the Mexican War and he eventually entered into a life of politics. At the age of thirty-one, Lane spent his earnings to run for a seat in the Indiana legisl...
Soldiers in the Army of Freedom
It was 1862, the second year of the Civil War, though Kansans and Missourians had been fighting over slavery for almost a decade. For the 250 Union soldiers facing down rebel irregulars on Enoch Toothman’s farm near Butler, Missouri, this was no battle over abstract principles. These were men of the First Kansas Colored Infantry, and they were fighting for their own freedom and that of their families. They belonged to the first black regiment raised in a northern state, and the first black unit to see combat during the Civil War. Soldiers in the Army of Freedom is the first published account of this largely forgotten regiment and, in particular, its contribution to Union victory in the tra...
Kansas History
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