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The Reverend Thomas and Sarah Johnson
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1830 they arrived in what was then called the Unorganized Missouri
Territory to establish the Shawnee Indian Mission School. Join
them at their home on the evening of January 2, 1865 and hear them tell
of their experiences with the Mission, Thomas' involvement in Kansas
Territorial Politics and the Civil War.
Thomas Johnson Sarah Johnson The Emigrants
In the Spring of 1855, they
left their home in Philadelphia to establish a
new home in the Kansas Territory. The new home would become
known to the Nation as "Bleeding Kansas" as the Pro Slave
supporters saw Kansas as, perhaps, their last opportunity to make
slavery secure. If Kansas would enter the Union as a Free State,
the abolitionists would be emboldened. Learn of the time that
brought the Nation to Civil War.
George Templeton Strong and Catherine Dix
 Skepticism
in 1861 had changed to praise by 1865, with the United States Sanitary
Commission recognized as the most effective relief organization the
world had seen. Mr Strong, New York attorney and Treasurer of the
Commission and Mrs Dix of the Women's Central Association of Relief
tell the story of the Commission and it's part in preserving the Union
during our Civil War.
George Templeton
United States Sanitary Commission Field Relief StationStrong (Civil War Encampments) Learn about and see how the people at home in the North supported their boys who answered
President Lincoln's call to put down the rebellion. "A package a
week for the boys" was the standard to show the troops that they were
loved, missed and supported. Sometimes compared with the present day
Red Cross and USO, those who fought with the Union and the Confederacy
were beneficiaries of this agency's service.
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