Talk:Lawrence Massacre

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Battle of Lawrence → Lawrence Massacre — Another alternative is "Quantrill's raid", though that seems to also refer to the larger campaign. "Battle of Lawrence" appears to be the least-used term for this event, both in sourced literature [1][2][3] and and on a Google search. (BoL = 39, LM = 882, QR = 1190). There've been several complaints from editors that it was not a real "battle".[4][5] Will Beback · † · 19:53, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

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• Lawrence Massacre For the reasons given above. -Will Beback · † · 19:57, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
• Lawrence Massacre ... the Battle title doesn't bother me, but LM is a bit more descriptive ... I also like the infobox, so keep it but tweak it ... QR would be more descriptive of the campaign, JIMO .. they also swept through KCK in Turner (but some of the ppl there defended themselves) ... J. D. Redding
• Lawrence Massacre Whatever actual battle may have occurred ended when Quantrill's 450 men entered Lawrence and encountered no resistance. Everything of historical significance regarding the raid (i.e. the robbing of the bank, the execution of every adult male the raiders encountered, the looting of stores, the burning of 200 buildings) occurred outside the scope of an actual battle. I did a quick check of about a half dozen general histories and could not find any references to "Battle of Lawrence". Thomas Goodrich, who has written several works on the Kansas issues before and during the war titled his book on the subject "Bloody Dawn: The Story of the Lawrence Massacre". Tom (North Shoreman) 23:09, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
• Lawrence Massacre per all above. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 05:01, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
• Quantrill's raid I don't feel strongly either way but in Lawrence I almost always hear it referred to as QR. I've also seen it referenced as such in the media/references more than LM and never as the Battle of Lawrence. NapalmSunday 03:06, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

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Is there an article on Quantrill's Raid as a whole? Wrad 20:11, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

There are redirects Quantrill's raid and Quantrill's raid on Lawrence ... could be turned into a full article. AND I think the diff of QR, BoL, and LM is descriptive somewhat historically of where the author sided back in the day over the conflict. May still be ... J. D. Redding 22:38, 2 May 2007 (UTC) (ps., BoL may be more NPOV ... but not really sure about it ...)

There's already a Category:Battles of Quantrill's Raid into Kansas of the American Civil War waiting to be filled. Quantrill's Raiders doesn't have much either. -Will Beback · † · 23:00, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Not sure if there were full out "batttles" (eg., something which happens between two armies leading to the moral then physical disintegration of one or the other of them ...). But I believe there were several confrontations when they went toward Lawarence. Maybe the cat could be changed to something else like ... Category:Incidents in Quantrill's Raid ... or Category:Attacks in Quantrill's Raid ... or something ... J. D. Redding 23:13, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

site:www.kancoll.org William G. Cutler lawrence Quantrill ... Cutler also spells it Quantrell ... just a note ... J. D. Redding 23:21, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Cutler's THE LAWRENCE MASSACRE. J. D. Redding 23:27, 2 May 2007 (UTC) (ps., he doesn't mention the Turner incident ... but it's in Betty S. Gibson, "Pride of the Golden Bear". Kendall Hunt Pub Co., June 1981. ISBN 0-8403-2397-2; He does mention "Shawneetown" which was located in the Turner area when the the Shawnee prophet had a village there (but that was east of where the center of turner today) ... )

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This article has been renamed {{{{{subst}}}#if:Battle of Lawrence|from Battle of Lawrence to Lawrence Massacre}} as the result of a move request. --Stemonitis 19:42, 7 May 2007 (UTC) battle box and confederate victory is mislead, i think. the first man on the union side killed was a preacher whilst milking a cow and any soldiers killed were not in unit formations or arranged for battle —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.34.27.132 (talk) 09:24, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Radiers : number of?

Where the hell did the "6 (at most)" come from? J. D. Redding 23:50, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

I misread it ... nvr mind ... J. D. Redding 00:10, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

• Quantrill's Raid.--September 6, 1862 says His band consisted of about one hundred and forty men. J. D. Redding 23:59, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
• Another source says ... "daybreak on August 21, 1863 Quantrill, with around 400 men, rode into Lawrence" . J. D. Redding

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Recent Revisions

I'm really disappointed in both of you. Did you bother to read the edits you reverted? You, especially, RJensen. This is an article about a particular event--and a well-documented one at that. I removed weasel-worded, revisionist, ahistorical edits referencing a vanity-published and pointy anecdotal short story collection. I reviewed your credentials, RJensen, years ago, in the course of examining some ongoing conflict or another, and I perceive you to be a serious historian--which is why your revision here confuses me so very much. Read the article before the missouri historian weighed in. Read it after. Which is more historical, well-referenced, lacking in POV?

I understand (though despise) the ongoing attempt to rehabilitate Quantrill's image. It's part and parcel of southern revisionist history. But I will not abide it here. I am a serious scholar. I am a historian. And I, unlike the 'academic' of the vanity press, can marshal serious weight behind my interpretations.

Find me one reputable source that draws a clear and direct connection between the Lawrence Massacre and the events you reverted to include.

It wasn't a popular opinion at the time, but the first governor of the State of Kansas drew such a connection. This is from Blackmar's 1902 biography of Robinson: "The town was burned and sacked, and honored citizens lay dead or dying in every direction. Without any opportunity' for defense, citizens were murdered on sight, their homes plundered and burned. There can be no estimate placed upon the atrocious work of those brief three hours, except to say that it was worse than the deeds of savages, and that it could not have been done except through a spirit of revenge. It was the result of years of raiding; and invasion by un-military bands of men who committed un-military deeds. Without doubt remote causes could be detected prior to 1861, but the immediate occasion was the raiding in Missouri of “Jayhawkers." On Sunday, August 21st, 1892, the anniversary of the Quantrell Raid, after the publication of “The Kansas Conflict," Governor Robinson gave an address at the services held in Central Park in commemoration of the most atrocious massacre on record in modem times and among civilized people. In this address Governor Robinson gave his personal recollections of the event, and then proceeded to show that the Quantrell raid was but a sequel to other events; that it was nothing more than an attempt to retaliate for the terrorism practiced by desperadoes on the border hailing from Kansas. Governor Robinson received severe criticism for his bold assertions respecting the Quantrell raid…"70.250.48.134 (talk) 18:23, 26 March 2011 (UTC) 70.250.48.134 (talk) 18:27, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

No one noticed the edits this partisan made, so they passed unchallenged. I reverted them clumsily, so they came to your attention. And you reverted to tremendously unverifiable and unencylopedic claims.

For heaven's sake! You're allowing your encyclopedia to claim that a war crime and possible act of terrorism that helped engender the US Civil War was predicated on a two-year old event, based on a single self-published vanity book?

This is a very confusing statement coming from a "serious scholar". Quantrill's raid was conducted in August 1863. Why would you state that an event in the middle of the war helped engender it? Is it possible you are confusing Quantrill's raid with the pre-war sack of Lawrence? Please explain. MOhistorybuff (talk) 16:19, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

And no, I will not register. I will not be a part of this dumbing-down of fact. But I will continue to edit, revert, correct, etc, from multiple IPs. I will never advance a POV, but I will fight hard for fact. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.143.45.75 (talk) 08:39, 5 March 2011 (UTC)

well that's quite a statement of POV goals, which are not in line with Wikipedia rules. In any case I rewrote the section and added cites to two major studies (published by university presses and well reviewed). Rjensen (talk) 13:40, 5 March 2011 (UTC)

See I don't know as I don't think the Lawrence raid was the "murderous attack upon civillians that it is made up to be". As a lot of Lawrence contained Union guerillas and there had been to previous attack by these Guerillas upon innocent Confederate sympathisers. Instead I think it should be Lawrence Raid rather than Lawrence Massacare. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.42.146.165 (talk) 07:34, 29 April 2011 (UTC)

The original author of this thread is absolutely spot on. This article spends almost its entire body talking about how the Lawrence Free Staters broughts the attack on themselves, and spends more time talking about the Jayhawker backlash than the actual attack itself. It even includes an absurdly long quote from a Missourian about this backlash. This article sounds like it was written by a neo-Missourian Bushwhacker looking to force a revisionist view of the Civil War on Wikipedia. Next this article will assert that the Civil War was actually about "states' rights," the most popular buzzword for slavery and racism. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.102.165.152 (talk) 03:08, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

Well, it's 2018, and I notice, reading through, that once again the tone of the early going in the article seems to be that the citizes of Lawrence brought it upon themselves, even while the bulk of the article makes it clear that, in reality, no such thing happened. It would be nice if it could be cleaned up once for all, and then locked to prevent these revisionist changes. Theonemacduff (talk) 06:05, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

Confederate Reaction?

Shouldn't the article mention that the CSA was angered and appalled over the attacks?--74.167.7.205 (talk) 04:54, 25 March 2012 (UTC)

Article name changed without discussion "Lawrence Massacre" to "Lawrence massacre"

Another editor has changed the name of the article without discussion. In reviewing what I have available in modern sources the historical event is listed as "Lawrence Massacre" in the body of the works, not just in titles or chapter/section headings. Sources include Goodrich & Castel. There is also an article by George Rule referring to it that way on author/historian Gerteis Civil War St. Louis website. The same form of the name is used in the NPS/APBB/CWSAC summary body, as well as the 2nd Ed. of The Civil War Battlefield Guide. This seems to be the present name, although contemporary primary accounts were mixed, using "Lawrence Massacre" for titles and section headers, while using "Lawrence massacre" in the body in many instances.

My conclusion is that the move has been made in error, but perhaps I'm misunderstanding Wikipedia practice on the matter. I will revert the changes within the article, and hold off on moving the article name back until discussion is complete. Red Harvest (talk) 09:56, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

The move without discussion is fine with me. I don't see any previous move warring here, so consensus doesn't appear to be measured. In this one case, I prefer uppercase Massacre. Unlike many massacres, this particular event has been covered in many, many works, including virtually every American History textbook I've ever read. This is anecdotal, but my recollection is that (in those tertiary works) the event IS listed as a proper noun, and so deserves the uppercase here. BusterD (talk) 23:50, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

As I said on my talk page, books like this one have dozens of occurences in upper case, in titles and page headings, but in a sentence context use lower case. This is not unusual. And on average, it's still only about 50% upper in books (many of the capitalized ones being citations to titles of works about the event, or section or page headings), which is nowhere near the threshold of MOS:CAPS about being consistently capitalized in sources. Dicklyon (talk) 05:58, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

Repeat from other page: I'll stick with what appears to be the consensus established by reliable sources, and actual historians writing for the general public carry more weight on this than a Wikipedia editor. When I've done the searches it still comes down to two conventions: primary accounts were lowercase in text body, while nearly all of those by twentieth century historians (secondary sources) were upper case in the body of the text (thanks for the Leslie link that is one exception I had not found in search through my own bookshelf and online.) No, this isn't just headers, I specifically searched for their form in the body and rejected headers and such.

I wasn't cherry picking. I was trying to find the common usage of current authors on the subject before making a conclusion. If/when I start seeing substantial evidence that those covering the subject have gone lower case, then I'll agree. But I'm not seeing that yet.

I can accept that this doesn't apply to all historical events, so I'm not arguing that most should be caps. But I am going by the best information at hand. If Wikipedia is going 100% lowercase on these, and the Boston Massacre is changed, then I'll accept this here, even if it appears to be at odds with current sources. Red Harvest (talk) 06:18, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

You're not seeing the occurrence counts from books as substantial evidence? Dicklyon (talk) 06:25, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

Quantrill's raid is also overwhelmingly lowercase in sources, modern or not: [6] (click the "Search lots of books" button if the URL doesn't work the first time). Dicklyon (talk) 06:45, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

Actually as I believe I've explained several times now on various pages about this,I figured out why there were the lower case counts were coming from in many instances: primary contemporary sources. I didn't need the graph to tell me, I was able to work that out when I was looking at the name on my own and excluding forced capitalizations. I also noticed that in these contemporary accounts the name was often listed that way many times. In modern secondary sources it is typically only stated in text proper once or twice, while in them primary accounts are also frequently quoted in their original case. This undoubtedly skews the graph. Troubleshooting to identify systematic flaws in data is something I'm accustomed to doing.

There are some other potential problems in the method, the most obvious of which is that each source should get only one vote--instead of multiple counts per (and sometimes conflicting) since it reflects that author's accepted convention. But to do that one has to know the context. One also needs to weed out things like primary accounts published long ago that are being republished, etc. In looking at the hits that pop up when I select recent years, I don't know if it does that. Recognizing these flaws and having done my own search of titles, I came to the conclusion that the consensus naming for the 20th century was "Lawrence Massacre." Another thing worth trying is setting smoothing to zero. That way you can clearly see dates of individual publications. It makes an interesting graph when expanded out to 2008.

I agree with you about Quantrill's raid however. Red Harvest (talk) 09:39, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

How many would I have to look through at Google Book Search to find an example of a quote from a primary source? The first several that I checked with lowercase are not what you suggest. Can you find me an example at least? Dicklyon (talk) 02:52, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

One I came across that is more recent (2010 and presumably outside the dataset range) is Lawrence: Survivors of Quantrill's Raid, although it has only one direct quote of the lower case while using upper case for naming. The Rule article I referred to at the start uses upper case and quotes lower case from Schofield's autobiography (primary source which followed the earlier convention of 1897.) I swear I found more book examples before, and one that stuck out that had a number of primary accounts quoted in lower case, with upper case used in the name in the body of the text. I can't find it at the moment which is frustrating. I wasn't limiting to Google Books at the time, and was hoping to get something that addressed naming changes. The varied and wide nature of skimming many searches with incomplete text might have led me to cross some sources of different types: newspaper, web articles, books, etc. If I was mistaken in the summary as it now appears, I apologize.

The shift in the naming convention to capitalization of this event appears to have occurred primarily in 1909-10 when Connelly published. (Note there appears a year or two offset from copyright in the graph entry, not sure why, I'm turning off smoothing to see publication spikes.) Castel followed the same form first in ~1958 and subsequently from what I've seen--and has been a large modern influence. Goodrich followed the same form in the example I've seen. Spencer Tucker's recent(? -- shows 2013) American Civil War [6 volumes]: The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection also uses capitalization--and keep in mind that is meant to be an encyclopedia of the war. However, Dennis K. Boman uses lowercase in a 2013 work Lincoln and Citizens' Rights in Civil War Missouri. So combined with Leslie and others the practice is decidedly more mixed now than it had been. For those of us who grew up in the two states where the name has almost always seen capitalized in the 20th century, being told to ignore the bulk of the reliable sources and adopt a new convention is not an easy pill to swallow--even if some of the same sources were part of the shift in the name in the 20th century. Red Harvest (talk) 06:16, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

"... the practice is decidedly more mixed now" -- This "mixed" usage definitely means the caps are not "necessary". Why is adapting to WP style for such topics a "bitter pill" for you? It's nothing personal. Dicklyon (talk) 07:05, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

I said "not an easy pill to swallow" which is not quite the same connotation as "bitter". I chose the wording because it has more to do with it running contrary to what I've seen as normal practice, resulting in discomfort rather than anger. And not "necessary" is not the same as not "preferred" by those knowledgeable of the event. Again I'll concede to the historians who follow what appears to be a relevant manual of style for this. If they are wholesale making the move with respect to the event, then I'll follow. Red Harvest (talk) 08:27, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

I've applied edit warring warnings to both User:Red Harvest's and User:Dicklyon's pages. 2RR in the last 22 hours is far enough. Stop the reverting. Let others join the discussion. There's no hurry to get to a specific conclusion. It doesn't matter who's right here. The edit warring in live space is not acceptable behavior for experienced editors who disagree. BusterD (talk) 07:12, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

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...and this is why discussing it first would have been a better idea

The regrettable moving back and forth of the page that is now happening (and I'm not involved in moving it) is why this should have been discussed first. I was hoping to prevent this cycle from happening.

One of the problems is that folks are being told to ignore the standard "reliable sources" model and common usage for a "manual of style" that doesn't directly address historical events. This sets Wikipedia at odds with itself and it takes some smoothing/explanation. As I've said before, it would be best to address this natural conflict in the MOS--put the best argument in there rather than quoting something that doesn't address it in any specific way. Red Harvest (talk) 06:29, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

Nobody is suggesting ignoring reliable sources. Dicklyon (talk) 07:13, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

On the contrary, the "specialist style fallacy" essay that is suggested in these discussions does just that. Rejecting the capitalization because the most reliable source is a specialist runs counter to the normal sourcing basis. It doesn't matter whether one agrees or disagrees with the basis of the essay to see the inherent conflict. Red Harvest (talk) 07:52, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

WP:SSF just cautions not to give exceptional weight to specialists over other reliable sources, and use wikipedia style rather than the style of selected specialists. Since we are writing for a general audience, a general and uniform style makes more sense than having reach topic area adopt the style their favorite specialists. Dicklyon (talk) 07:00, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

I'm not sure why you can't see how this puts Wikipedia's guidelines at odds with one another allowing multiple interpretations. North Shoreman did an even better job of analyzing the conflict and the need for a policy to address it. At any rate, we are at an impasse as a result. Red Harvest (talk) 08:48, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

Capitalization in reliable sources

Google books n-grams show about half capitalization of massacre. What can we tell by looking more closely?

First 10 google book search hits for query "the Lawrence Massacre":

1. Bloody Dawn: The Story of the Lawrence Massacre, 1992, where it's lower case on the copyright page, uppercase on every page heading, and apparently not used in a sentence in the text. Also uppercase on the back cover blurb.
2. The Devil Knows How to Ride: The True Story of William Clark Quantrill and His Confederate Raiders, 1991, lowercase in text, upper in many page headings "Prelude to the Lawrence Massacre"
3. Quantrill and the Border Wars, 1909, uppercase throughout (plus all-caps headings)
4. Cyrus Leland, Jr., and the Lawrence Massacre: A Note and Document, 1987, no preview or snippets; uppercase in title
5. Cavaliers of the Brush: Quantrill and His Men, 2003, appears only in citations to titles that contain "Lawrence Massacre", in title case
6. Lincoln and Citizens' Rights in Civil War Missouri: Balancing Freedom and Security, 2011, lowercase in text, 4 places including index
7. Quantrill's Raid: The Lawrence Massacre, 1997,no preview or snippets; uppercase in title
8. duplicate of #2 with "The" missing from book title
9. Desperate Men: The James Gang and the Wild Bunch, 1962, uppercase chapter title and headings; no occurrence in text; but lowercase "rape of Lawerence, Kansas" and "Quantrill's raid".
10. True Crime in the Civil War: Cases of Murder, Treason, Counterfeiting, Massacre, Plunder & Abuse, 2014, uppercase throughout. (this book credits "wikipedia commons" for one image, so is probably not unaffected by wikipedia)

Of these, the ones providing evidence of generic treatment are 1, 2, and 6 (and weakly, 9). The ones providing evidence of treatment as a proper name are 3 and 10 (though #3 is old, from 1909, so not representative of "modern" usage). So I'll probably want to look at more, though it's clear that it is not consistently capitalized.

Here's the next page of 10:

1. Hunter Jones Joins the Civil War (Missouri), 2007, uppercase throughout
2. Lawrence: Survivors of Quantrill's Raid, 2010, uppercase (except one occurrence lower in an old news quote as Red Harvest suggested we might find)
3. Encyclopedia of Death and the Human Experience, 2009, lowercase in text
4. The Civil War: The Third Year Told By Those Who Lived It, 2013, lowercase in text (and some upper in titles and headings)
5. Quantrill in Texas: The Forgotten Campaign, 2007, uppercase in text (in quotes)
6. Napoleon Hill's Golden Rules: The Lost Writings, 2008, lowercase in text
7. Black Flag: Guerrilla Warfare on the Western Border, 1861-1865, 1999, lowercase in text
8. Civil War on the Missouri-Kansas Border, 2005, only in citation titles
9. Gold-Mining Boomtown: People of White Oaks, Lincoln County, New Mexico Territory, 2013, uppercase in text
10. The 'Real' Wild West, 2009, lowercase in text

Of these, the ones providing evidence of generic lowercase treatment are 3, 4, 6, 7, 19. The ones providing evidence of treatment as a proper name are 1, 2, 5, 9. Still more lower than upper, not nearly approaching "consistently capitalized".

Should we keep going? Since Google tends to rank capitalized hits higher, I expect to see the percentage of lowercase holding or going up on subsequent pages.

Summary: by far the majority of capitalized occurrences are in titles and headings, and hence have no bearing on whether the term is treated as a proper name, yet are counted in the n-gram stats that come out near 50/50.

Dicklyon (talk) 02:48, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

I'm thinking we should either move it back to lowercase if nobody objects, or have an RM discussion if @Red Harvest: or someone else thinks the evidence relative to guidelines is not yet compelling enough to go with uncontroversial. Dicklyon (talk) 04:06, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

It should be left capitalized. The most reliable sources I have use capital letters. It's Christmas, not Groundhog Day, so leave it alone. If I see some scholarly discussion that addresses it, then that would be another matter. In general, these "styles" seem to go back and forth over the decades, much like management fads... Since there has been refusal to address the concerns raised by multiple editors, I remain opposed to the move. Red Harvest (talk) 03:40, 25 December 2014 (UTC)

What are those "most reliable sources I have"? Dicklyon (talk) 03:43, 25 December 2014 (UTC)

I provided them when the discussion first began some time ago. I'm not surprised that you wouldn't remember. Red Harvest (talk) 07:33, 28 December 2014 (UTC)

Why is there a battle box on this article?

It wasn't a battle, it was a massacre. One side was doing all the killing, the other side had no combatants. ScienceApe (talk) 17:10, 26 June 2016 (UTC)

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Who was Harris's husband "Deal"?

A very small thing, but perhaps correctable.

In the middle of the second paragraph at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_massacre#Collapse_of_the_Women's_Prison_in_Kansas_City, we have the phrase "Elizabeth Harris (later married to Deal)". Standard style indicates this is a "second reference" to a man named Deal, but no one of that name is mentioned anywhere else in the article, and my Net searches find no one named Deal connected to Quantrill's raiders, or to Elizabeth Harris Deal.

I am hoping someone will supply the information. Failing that, a phrasing to avoid the problem would be

Elizabeth Harris (later Elizabeth Harris Deal)

given that http://www.pscwrt.org/PDF/Forty%20Shirts.pdf discusses the "recollection" by "Elizabeth Harris Deal, who was Eliza Harris in 1863". GeorgeTSLC (talk) 20:53, 26 June 2018 (UTC)

"Quantrill's raid" listed at Redirects for discussion

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A note about the name

This is likely inconsequential, but I thought it was worth a note here: In the Lawrence area, this event is almost always referred to as "Quantrill's Raid," whereas non-Kansas sources usually call it something like the "Lawrence massacre."--Gen. Quon (Talk) 16:35, 25 August 2021 (UTC)

I created {{Campaignbox Quantrill's Raid into Kansas}} back in 2014, following information from the National Park Service at Lawrence Battle Detail to refer to the campaign encompassing the actions of the Lawrence Massacre, Brooklyn, Paola, Big Creek, and Hopewell. So, I guess both are correct, but slightly different, with the action at Lawrence being by far the most significant engagement of the campaign. Mojoworker (talk) 21:55, 23 June 2024 (UTC)

Capitalization of title

Almost every scholarly source I could find refers to this event as the "Lawrence Massacre", with both words capitalized. The sources I checked with were all fairly recent (with a few notable exceptions, like Quantrill's bio), and are as follows:

• The Guerrilla Hunters (2017 LSU Press),
• The War Went On (2020 LSU Press),
• Bleeding Kansas (2016 Routledge),
• William Clarke Quantrill: His Life and Times (1999 University of Oklahoma Press),
• Rebel Guerrillas: Mosby, Quantrill and Anderson (2018 McFarland & Company)
• Quantrill in Texas (2007 Cumberland House)
• Gold-Mining Boomtown (2013 University of Oklahoma Press)

Additionally, since this was, effectively, a battle (albeit, a lopsided one), wouldn't that make it a proper noun? I think that this fact, plus the way it's listed in the most recent sources, suggests the title of this page should really be the "Lawrence Massacre". Any thoughts or comments on this?--Gen. Quon (Talk) 14:50, 24 January 2022 (UTC)