I know that John Brown played a significant role in pre-war Kansas and his connections with James Blunt and James Lane indicate that Brown's influence would have developed an attitude toward the slavery question within the regiments of Kansas. One of the central images I have noted in Col Moonlight's reminiscences (his observation of the Confederate shackles for 'captured' coloured soldiers) indicates some anti-slavery feeling on the part of Moonlight. Earlier in 1862 when captured Moonlight is clearly pleased to have escaped and in deceiving his captors by claiming he was anti-Lane and ridiculing the 'lovers' of the slaves. Does anyone know of the position Moonlight and his soldiers took on the central question of slavery?

Graham Duncan