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during Saturday’s Kansas-UTEP matchup at the Sun Bowl in El Paso. For the brothers, it couldn’t be cooler, although you get the impression that, despite their close relationship (“We haven ...
You can enjoy “The Civil War in Kansas” presentation this Thursday evening from 5:30 till 6:30 at the Smoky Hill Museum.
The crowd listened intently as Steve Cottrell, a Carthage resident and Civil War researcher and writer, told the story of the detachment of 40 members of the 1st Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry ...
The year is 1862 and the American Civil War is raging. For one family in the ... with old grudges still burning and bullets whizzing by, the brothers meet face-to-face during the Battle of the ...
Although Frank was the first of the James brothers to ride off to war ... Frank absorbed his parents' pro-slavery ideology. When the Civil War broke out in 1861, the 18-year-old joined a militia ...