Description
General Brown, Commander of the Border District, has sent two large trains loaded with 220 escaped slaves to Little Santa Fe, Missouri. They were supplied with 60 days rations and were informed that they must take care of themselves.
Little Santa Fe is in Jackson County, Missouri, and is divided by a street from Oxford, Johnson County, in this State (Kansas). The contrabands are now seeking homes in different sections of Kansas.
(Researcher's note: Brigadier General Egbert E. Brown took command of the Union's District of the Border in January 1864, replacing Thomas Ewing, Jr. He relaxed the depopulation rules of the infamous General Order No. 11 applied to Jackson, Cass, Bates, and Vernon Counties.
Little Santa Fe is also known as New Santa Fe in the southwestern corner of Jackson County, Missouri, East of Leawood, Kansas, and near the Blue Hills Country Club in Jackson County, Missouri. It was located at the junction of the Santa Fe Trail and the state line between Kansas and Missouri. It was incorporated in 1852 and had a population of 670 in 1860. For more information, see https://www.legendsofamerica.com/new-santa-fe-missouri/)Date(s) of Creation
5/11/1864
