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Heaven Sent
2014
Overview
Back in Kansas, John Brown and a few of the men—George Gill, Aaron Stevens, John Kagi, and Charles Tidd—briefly stayed around Lawrence and in early July moved on to southeast Kansas, where they hung about into the fall. These southeastern counties lay below the big bend in the Missouri River where no natural boundaries separated Missouri and Kansas. The area was still in turmoil, having been relatively untouched by Free-State successes in 1856.¹
The situation was especially unsettled in Linn and Bourbon Counties, which bordered on Missouri. After proslavery guerrilla bands had driven them out earlier, Free-State settlers
