The Kansas legislature appoints a commission to…

The Kansas legislature appoints a commission to validate claims from property holders whose property was destroyed in battles between free-state and pro-slavery advocates.

The $450,001.70 bill, later approved by territorial commissioners, includes seventy-eight buildings burned, three hundred and sixty-eight horses killed, and $37,349.61 worth of crops lost. (Not one dollar of the amount will ever be paid, however.)

Abraham Lincoln travels to Kansas In December to give his first campaign speech for the presidency and to help Republican candidates vie successfully in the upcoming election.