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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1949
Historic Marker Is Site Where Army Once Camped
By MARVIN L ROWLANDS
A small marble marker half buried by grass marks the site of army barracks and trenches which stood on top of Mount Oread in 1863. The 18 by 24 inch slab sits in the grass across the drive east of Fraser hall.
The marker was placed in its position southwest of the Pioneer statue in 1908. The trenches and barracks were erected to house the troops organized to protect Lawrence citizens from the bands of raiders that came over from Missouri. professors and students to learn
The readers were pro-slavery men who were trying to frighten anti-slavery people from settling in Kansas. The bands of men came over from Missouri and set fire to the homes of the leaders of the "free staters" and occasionally killed some of them.
Quantrill's raid was the culmination and the most famous of the raids into Kansas. Quantrill led his band of pro-slave men into Kansas from near Westport, Mo., where Kansas City is now. His group surprised the people of Lawrence on the morning of August 21, 1863. The Eldridge house was burned and a large number of men were killed and injured before the band left town. The raiders were able to leave town and return to Missouri in spite of Union soldiers that were about six miles from town.
A map of the area shows that the barracks stood about where the north end of Fraser hall is now, and near where Watkins and Miller halls are. Earthworks were erected in 1864 to defend Lawrence against the raids. They stood on the southeast crest of Mount Oread until the Sigma Kappa house was erected there. The barracks were removed after the Civil war.
In 1903 George R. Crissman, '98,
professor of American history,
became interested in the historical sites
in Lawrence. He started a campaign
to locate these places and to mark
them with marble or bronze plaques.
In May, 1908, Chancellor Frank Strong appointed a committee of
professors and students to locate and secure markers for the sites. Among the students from the American history classes that worked on the committee was John Ise, now professor of economics.
A local marble firm donated the marble and the work for the first three markers. Those chosen designated the site of the trenches and barracks on Mount Oread, the site of the Free State hotel burned in 1856, the Eldridge house which Quantrill burned, and Governor Robinson's first home which was owed by a pro-slave sheriff in 1856.
Dedication services were held in Fraser theater on Dec. 4, 1908. The committee had selected and marked 26 sites in Lawrence. George W. Martin, secretary of the State Historical society, read a long paper recalling the history of Lawrence and the places which were marked.
Recalling the border raids, Mr. Martin said that the people of Kansas who had had anti-slavery feelings during the war had forgiven their opponents. They had even allowed them to raise statues to their military heroes, but he considered it an insult to the people of Kansas for Missourians to hold an annual celebration in honor of Quantrill's raid on Lawrence.
And that is the story behind the little marble marker across from Fraser that bears the inscription "Site of barracks and trenches 1863."
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Wait Till Lipton Hears Of This
An argument for the revival of price control is suggested by a gift of two pounds of jasmine tea received by Paul G. Roofe, head of the anatomy department.
The price of the tea: $1,480,000.
The sum computed in American money was not so astounding when Mr. Roofe explained that the giver, W. C. Tsang, professor of anatomy at Peiping Union Medical school, was receiving $17,000,000 a month which becomes $30 in American exchange.
Mr. Roofe met W.C. Tsang at the University of Chicago about 10 years ago when both were students there.
Contributions made by University students to the World War II Memorial fund through donation of book store receipts have reached $143.98 since Jan. 1, 1948. These receipts yield 15 per cent of their value and are collected in boxes placed in the Student Union book store.
Memorial Fund Gets $143.98
The total cononntributions made in this manner is now $810.28.
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