Monument erected in honor of 12 men, who were massacred

by bushwackers sic during the Civil War, at Trading Post, Kansas manuscript note

$125 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

Undated ca. 1890 . Photograph, 7 x 4 1/2 inches, affixed to larger mount, picturing in the foreground an obelisk on which are engraved the names of the victims, a grove of trees to the rear. The monument actually memorialized those killed at the 19 May 1858 Marais des Cygnes Massacre, the last significant act of violence in the Bleeding Kansas conflict; on that day a group of marauders from Missouri kidnapped 11 unarmed free-staters and killed five of them, an act widely condemned in the

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