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Mr. Swenson had been a court reporter in Sweden and
had come to Kansas in 1858. In the spring of 1859 Mr.
Jaderborg pre-empted some land in the neighborhood,
but continued his work as blacksmith until the Civil War
broke out. In April, 1861, he joined the Second Kansas
Cavalry[1] with which he served at the battle of Pea
Ridge and other conflicts, especially in Arkansas. Later
in the war he was in the government service as
blacksmith at Fort Scott, Kansas, and Fort Smith, Arkansas.
When peace came he returned to the land he had selected
seven years earlier and, aided by some Swedes who
accompanied him from Lawrence, built first a dugout
and then a log cabin and here made his home
thenceforth.[2]
Kansas was a border State in the Civil War and was
exposed to the ravages of Confederate troops and border
ruffians organized into guerilla bands, as well as Indian
uprisings. Numerous raids were made into the State by
proslavery forces with Missouri as a base. Of these the
most tragic was the sack of Lawrence, August 21, 1863.
The city was burned and many of its inhabitants
massacred. One of the Swedish survivors, G. Rodell, wrote
to Hemlandet, describing the infamous deed. He stated
that only one of the Swedes, a young man by the
name of Carl Anderson, had been killed, and another
man named Johanson had been wounded but was
recovering.[3]
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