After about a week, the Free-Staters eventually…
December 1855 CE
The news distresses him, so he journeys to Lawrence to see the situation for himself and is quite startled by what he sees.
He immediately calls representatives from the Missouri army and Lawrence militia before him and urges them to sign a peace treaty.
Such an agreement is finally made in December 1855 between Robinson and Lane (who represents the Free-Staters) and David Rice Atchison (who represents the pro-slavers).
After much persuasion, the Missouri army reluctantly leaves the area.
Aside from Dow, the Wakarusa War claims only one other life: that of Free State settler and abolitionist Thomas Barber, who, on his way to the defense of Lawrence, had been shot by the Pottawatomi Indian Agent George W. Clarke during an ambush.
Barber's death will be memorialized in a poem by John Greenleaf Whittier titled Burial of Barber.
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