Grisly Chapter In Local History

Grisly Chapter In Local History

Bleediing Kansas

Franklin County--History

Cook, John E.

Hinton, Richard J.

Lane, James Henry, 1814-1866

Leonhardt, Charles F. W. (Capt.)

Redpath, James, 1833-1891

Shannon, Wilson, 1802-1877

Danites

Shannon's Guards

Greenwood Baptist Church

Newspaper article by John Mark Lambertson and originally published in The Ottawa Herald February 27, 1988. Article tells of the Massacre of Shannon's Guards by a company of 30 vigilantes led by Capt. Charles F.W. Leonhardt, a member of the secret anit-slavery society called the "Danites," led by Gen. Jim Lane. Lambertson worked out that the massacre took place just west of the Greenwood Baptist Church in Greenwood Township, Franklin County. Shannon's Guards were named for pro-slavery territorial governor Wilson Shannon.
Newspaper article includes bust photos of Capt. Charles F. W. Leonhardt and Richard J. Hinton and a drawing of the 1858 "Marais des Cygnes Massacre" in Linn County.

Lambertson, John Mark

The Ottawa Herald

02/27/1988

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2011.100.34.02

Franklin County, Kansas

1856