179. Farewell of General Curtis.-From the headquarters of the Army of the Border, Camp Arkansas, on the 8th of November, 1864, General Curtis issued his congratulatory order, saying: "In parting, the General tenders his thanks to the officers and soldiers for their generous support and prompt obedience to orders, and to his staff for their unceasing efforts to share the toil incident to the campaign. The pursuit of Price in 1864, and the battles of Lexington, Little Blue, Big Blue, Westport, Maraís des Cygnes, Osage, Charlot, and Newtonia, will be borne on the banners of the regiments who shared in them; and the States of Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Arkansas, may glory in the achievement of their sons in this short but eventful campaign.'

On the 9th of November, 1864, the day following the issuance of this order, General Curtis moved toward Fort Scott by way of Fort Gibson, and General Blunt moved to Fort Smith and thence to Fort Leavenworth. The official and authentic history of the part taken by the Kansas volunteers and militia in this campaign is contained in the report of Adjutant-General C. K. Holliday, published in December, 1864.

180. Election 1864.-November 8, 1864, occurred the general election in Kansas, resulting in the choice of Samuel J. Crawford, Governor; James McGrew, Lieutenant-Governor; R. A. Barker, Secretary of State; J. R. Swallow, Auditor of State; William Spriggs, State Treasurer; J. D. Brumbaugh, Attorney-General; Jacob Safford, Associate

Justice. Sidney Clark was elected Representative in ConAbraham Lincoln received the first vote of Kansas

gress.

for President of the United States.

SUMMARY.

1. Outlook dark for Kansas and Missouri defence.

2. General Price, advancing northward with 18,000 men, gathers recruits.

3. General Gano captures Major Hopkins' train at Cabin creek. 4. General Ewing falls back, disputing the way with the enemy, and saves St. Louis.

5. The men of Kansas respond to the call of Governor Carney, and 16,000 take the field.

6. Stubborn fighting at Lexington, Little Blue, Big Blue, and Westport, ends in victory.

7. A long pursuit of Price's army, and battles at Mine Creek, Osage, and Newtonia.

8. General Curtis congratulates the Kansas soldiers.

9. Second State election; Samuel J. Crawford elected Governor.

CHAPTER XIX.

PEACE AND HONOR.

181. Advent of Peace.-With the closing of the "Price raid" campaign, ended, generally, the fighting days of the Kansas regiments, although the Eighth Infantry fought at Nashville, in December, and the Eleventh Cavalry had an encounter with the Indians at Red Buttes, Dak., as late as the 26th of March, 1865.

Then came the home-coming of the Kansas regiments and batteries, and on the 8th of April, 1865, at Leavenworth, was held a great jubilee over the Union victories and the end of the war.

182. Kansas Officers Commissioned.-The following general officers from Kansas were commissioned by President Lincoln during the war:

Major-General James G. Blunt, Brigadier-Generals Robert B. Mitchell, Albert L. Lee, George W. Deitzler, Thomas Ewing, Jr., Powell Clayton.

The Kansas officers made Brigadier-Generals by brevet were: Wm. R. Judson, Thomas Moonlight, Charles W. Blair, James Ketner, John Ritchie, John A. Martin, Edward F. Schneider, Charles W. Adams and Thomas M. Bowen.

183. Colonel Cloud Honored.-When, in 1865, it came to the choice, by Governor Crawford, of officers of the State militia, there was an abundance of military talent and experience to choose from. Colonel William F. Cloud was

He had seen service as

commissioned as Major-General. Major and Colonel of the Second Kansas Cavalry, and then as Colonel of the Tenth Kansas Infantry, and last had gone through the "Price raid" campaign, on the staff. His civil and military record is remembered in the name of a Kansas county.

184. State Historical Society.-The record of the two wars in which Kansas was so early in her history engaged, the warfare forced on her people to make the State free, and the war for the preservation of the

Union, has been well kept.

Through

Franklin G. Adams.

the exertions of the State Historical Society, which has known through nearly all its history but one secretary, Judge Franklin G. Adams, there has been gathered a great store of public reports and private letters; the annals of the war; journals written up by soldiers by the camp-fire's light, and amid the echoes of battle; here may be seen gathered the "bruised arms" used in many a savage fray. In these collections is illustrated all the story of Kansas from the earliest time; here are the rude implements and weapons of the Indians; the stained and worn manuscript journal of the missionary, who strove to save the Indian from his fate; the maps and charts of the early explorers; the account books of the fur traders; the evidences of the first hard life of the pioneers, the advanced guard; and so on, showing in outward and visible signs the road followed to a finished and intense civilization.

185. State Treasures.-In the care of the State itself are preserved the flags of the Kansas regiments and

batteries; in the care of the Historical Society is kept their written and printed story, and the mute evidences of its truth.

The battle flags of the Kansas regiments and batteries were formally presented to Governor Crawford, at a Soldier's celebration, held at Topeka, on the 4th of July, 1866, and since have remained in the careful care of the State.

On the map of the State are preserved, in the names of counties, the names of Kansas soldiers-Mitchell, Cloud, Trego, Norton, Clark, Harper, Rooks, Rush, Russell, Stafford, Cowley, Graham, Jewell, Osborne, Ellis, Gove, Pratt, Ness and Hodgeman. Governors Crawford and Harvey, whose names are borne by counties, were officers in Kansas regiments. Alfred Gray and Dudley Haskell saw service with Kansas troops.

SUMMARY.

1. Peace is within thy walls and prosperity in thy palaces.

2. President Lincoln commissions many Kansas Generals. 3. The State Historical Society has faithfully preserved the annals of the war, and records of the progress of Kansas.

4. The map of Kansas is covered with brave names.