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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Mulligan, James A. 1830- (search)
Mulligan, James A. 1830- Military officer; born in Utica, N. Y., June 25, 1830; graduated at the University of St. Mary of the Lake, Illinois, in 1850; admitted to the bar in November, 1855. In 1861 he became colonel of the 23d Illinois Volunteers; and in September of that year took command of the Union post at Lexington, Mo., where, after a desperate defence against an attack by General Price, he was compelled to surrender. Later he took command at Camp Douglas, Chicago; in 1864 participated in hard-fought battles in the Shenandoah Valley. He died of wounds in Winchester, Va., July 26, 1864.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Kansas, (search)
constitutional convention meets at Topeka, James H. Lane president......Oct. 23, 1855 Charles W. Dow is killed by Franklin N. Coleman, pro-slavery man, near Lawrence, on the 21st. Free-State men meet at the scene on the 22d, and Sheriff Samuel J. Jones arrests Jacob Branson, with whom Dow had lived, for taking part. At Blanton, Branson is released by free-State men. A meeting is held at Lawrence, and Branson addresses the people. Fearing a mob from Missouri, citizens are armed......November, 1855 Governor Shannon orders Maj.-Gen. William P. Richardson of the territorial militia to collect as large a force as possible and report to Sheriff Jones......Nov. 27, 1855 About 800 free-State men enlist at Lawrence, among them John Brown and four sons, and about 1,500 Missourians gather at Franklin, near the mouth of the Wakarusa......Nov. 29, 1855 Governor Shannon makes a treaty with the free-State men, and orders the militia and sheriff to disband their forces......Dec. 8, 18