Last Stand at Rebel Creek: The Osage as Union Allies in Civil War Kansas

Everyone is invited to the Tonganoxie Community Historical Society free 4th Tuesday Meeting.

As tensions between states escalated during the Civil War, both the Union and the Confederacy tried to persuade the Osage to help them. Initially divided on how their people should respond, the Osage eventually became allies of the Union forces. They helped to stop a Confederate expedition aimed at reviving Southern resistance in Colorado and New Mexico in 1863. This program will explore the Osage contributions to the Union cause in Kansas during the Civil War.

The TCHS will welcome our speaker Dr. Isaias McCaffery. Dr. McCaffery earned a Ph.D. in history from the University of Kansas and he was a Professor of History at Independence Community College for 26 years. He is past president of the Kansas Association of Historians, and board member of the Independence Historical Museum.

This program is sponsored by Humanities Kansas.

Refreshments will be served following the program.

You may also like the following events from Tonganoxie Community Historical Society:

• This Saturday, 23rd August, 10:00 am, EXHIBIT: Kansas Stories of the Vietnam War: The Tonganoxie Edition in Tonganoxie
• Next Tuesday, 26th August, 09:00 am, EXHIBIT: Kansas Stories of the Vietnam War: The Tonganoxie Edition in Tonganoxie
• Next Wednesday, 27th August, 09:00 am, EXHIBIT: Kansas Stories of the Vietnam War: The Tonganoxie Edition in Tonganoxie

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