The Wakarusa War was an armed standoff that took place in the Kansas Territory during November and December 1855. It is often cited by historians as the...

Kansas" or "the Border Wars", directly presaged the American Civil War. The major incidents of Bleeding Kansas include the Wakarusa War, the Sacking of Lawrence...

River Wakarusa Township, Douglas County, Kansas The Wakarusa War, part of the Bleeding Kansas violence before the American Civil War Wakarusa Music and...

(1854–1861), and the site of the Wakarusa War (1855) and the Sacking of Lawrence (1856). During the American Civil War it was also the site of the Lawrence...

The Wakarusa River is a tributary of the Kansas River, approximately 80.5 miles (129.6 km) long, in eastern Kansas in the United States. It drains an agricultural...

(1912), pp. 855–57. Litteer (1987), pp. 13–14. Mullis, Tony. "Wakarusa War". Civil War on the Western Border: The Missouri-Kansas Conflict, 1854-1865...

in North Carolina, also known as the Regulator Insurrection, War of Regulation, and War of the Regulation, was an uprising in Provincial North Carolina...

versa). While the village had nearly been raided during the so-called Wakarusa War in December 1855, it was not directly attacked at that time. Abolitionists...

day—as a free state.[citation needed] On November 21, 1855, the so-called Wakarusa War began in Douglas County when a proslavery settler, Franklin Coleman,...

an abolitionist who was killed in Douglas County in 1855 during the Wakarusa War. Barber County was formed in 1867 from parts of Washington County, Peketon...