Letter, Marc [Parrott] to Dear Edd [Edwin Parrott] Webb, Thomas H. (Hopkins) , 1801-1866 (Creator) Marcus Parrott wrote to his brother, Edwin Parrott, from Leavenworth, K.T. He told Edwin that the border ruffians had made their first move into Lawrence the night before, defeating the "Lawrence party". Marcus added that morale in the town was exceptionally low after the departure of both Reeder and Robinson, and believed that the two men, plus the editors of the "Herald of Freedom" and the "Kansas Free State" were imprisoned. He also believed that, this victory gone to the border ruffians, with the support of Governor Shannon, the free soilers would be cleansed from the area. This item was part of Territorial Kansas Online (TKO# 101966). TKO topic guide: Border Disputes and Warfare>Significant Incidents>Sack of Lawrence (May 21, 1856) 1856-05-15 StillImage electronic image/tiff ku-kansascollection:2092 https://digital.lib.ku.edu/ku-kansascollection/2092 aspace_63c279e9b2d28924e053be4142135508 Correspondence from Marcus Parrott to his Dayton, Ohio family members--http://hdl.handle.net/10407/7679180932--RH MS VLT 554 This work is free of known copyright restrictions.