Murder ran rampant, and the roads were everywhere strewn with the bodies of slaughtered men.
Dr.Gihon afterwards published a small volume of 348 pages, from which the preceding extract has been taken.

The work is entitled "Governor Geary's Administration in Kansas." This work does not bear the sign manual of Gov.

Geary, but as it was written by the Governor's private secretary, it must be taken as an authentic statement of what these gentlemen saw with their own eyes, and heard with their own ears, as touching the condition of things in the Territory.

Dr.Gihon gives the following testimony concerning the troubles in and around Leavenworth and their cause: After the removal of Shannon on the 21st of August, when Secretary Woodson became acting Governor until the arrival of Gov.

Geary in September, the belligerents had matters pretty much their own way, and the ruffians improved the time, under pretense of authority from Woodson, to perpetrate with impunity the most shocking barbarities.
During this time Gen.