Edward Payson Bridgman With John Brown in Kansas, the Battle of Osawatomie

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Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. One afternoon in July we saw a posse of cavalry mounted on horses coming toward our house. We watched them with a good deal of interest, being very suspicious of them. Hastily I put a few things into my valise and hid it in a cornfield near by, and hurried into the woods where we could see unobserved. But the ma randers passed on over into the town without molesting us, some half a mile away. Between us and the town was the river, a couple of rods Wide, called the Osage. Near this point was the Pottawatomie, and from the contraction of these two names we have the name of Osawatomie.