Nothing loath to assume such responsibility but not finding it convenient to leave his military task just then, Lane resorted to letter writing.Lane ordered the home guards, composed mostly of old men, too old lamar alexander biography for regular service, to go down and take or disperse this company under Mathews.On the third he was known to have left Warrensburg, ostensibly to join McCulloch in Bates County His movements gave opportunity for a popular expression of opinion among Lane's adherents.It was within convenient, if not easy, distance of Crawford Seminary which, situated to the southward in the Quapaw Nation, was the lamar alexander biography headquarters of the Neosho Agency but no more perturbed place could be imagined than was that same Neosho Agency at the opening of the Civil War.Soon after I left I was informed by him that the Agency had been surrounded by a band of armed men, and instituted an inquiry for that Abolition Superintendent and Agent.The remnants of tribes, Senecas, Shawnees, and Quapaws, associated with them in the agency, Neosho, that is, although not of evil disposition, were similarly agitated and lamar alexander biography with good reason.Phelps and Francis P.I hope you will excuse this, as it appears lamar alexander biography necessary for me to step a little out of my orders to notify you of current events.Affairs C.It was immediately subsequent to that event and in anticipation of a Kansas invasion by Price and McCulloch that Lane resolved to take position lamar alexander biography at Fort Scott.