Tonganoxie Community Historical Society 4th Tuesday program to explore Osage contributions during Civil War
Tonganoxie Community Historical Society Museum
The Tonganoxie Community Historical Society’s Fourth Tuesday Program will feature a presentation on Civil War Kansas.
Dr. Isaias McCaffery will present his program “Last Stand at Rebel Creek: The Osage as Union Allies in Civil War Kansas.”
The event will begin at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the TCHS historical museum site, 201 W. Washington St.
A brief business meeting will kick off the evening followed by the historical program.
All are welcome for this free program. Refreshments will be served following the presentation.
McCaffery earned a Ph.D. in history from the University of Kansas and was a professor of history at Independence Community College for 26 years. He is past president of the Kansas Association of Historians and a board member of the Independence Historical Museum.
As tensions between states escalated during the Civil War, both the Union and the Confederacy tried to persuade the Osage to help them during the conflict.
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.
This program is sponsored by Humanities Kansas.
Tonganoxie Community Historical Society 4th Tuesday program to explore Osage contributions during Civil War
The Tonganoxie Community Historical Society’s Fourth Tuesday Program will feature a presentation on Civil War Kansas.
Dr. Isaias McCaffery will present his program “Last Stand at Rebel Creek: The Osage as Union Allies in Civil War Kansas.”
The event will begin at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the TCHS historical museum site, 201 W. Washington St.
A brief business meeting will kick off the evening followed by the historical program.
All are welcome for this free program. Refreshments will be served following the presentation.
McCaffery earned a Ph.D. in history from the University of Kansas and was a professor of history at Independence Community College for 26 years. He is past president of the Kansas Association of Historians and a board member of the Independence Historical Museum.
As tensions between states escalated during the Civil War, both the Union and the Confederacy tried to persuade the Osage to help them during the conflict.
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.
This program is sponsored by Humanities Kansas.
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