Letter, [S. F.] Burdick to Dear Brother, Oscar [Learnard] Webb, Thomas H. (Hopkins) , 1801-1866 (Creator) S. F. Burdick, referring to his friend, Oscar Learnard, as "brother", wrote to him from Learnard's home state of Vermont. Burdick asked Learnard if there was anything he might do "to advance the cause of liberty and justice", and told him that he had heard of troubles at Fort Scott, referring to an incident taking place on December 17, 1857, when free state men, who had been displaced from their claims in 1856, returned to take possession of them again. Firing was done on both sides, though no one was killed or arrested. This item was part of Territorial Kansas Online (TKO# 101802). TKO topic guide: National Debate About Kansas>Issues and Ideas>Anti-slavery perspective 1858-01-06 StillImage electronic image/tiff ku-kansascollection:1551 https://digital.lib.ku.edu/ku-kansascollection/1551 aspace_17db7fc3c9e0f9460968f872f7aef675 Oscar Eugene Learnard family papers--http://hdl.handle.net/10407/9761092203--RH MS D113 This work is free of known copyright restrictions.