Showing posts with label Kansas. Show all posts
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Saturday, January 29, 2011

January 29, 1861

On Tuesday, January 29, 1861, Congress voted to admit Kansas to the Union as the thirty-fourth state with a constitution prohibiting slavery.

In Louisiana, state troops seized Fort Macomb near New Orleans and a U.S. revenue cutter, the Robert McClelland.