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By Steve Fry

THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL

The friendship of Kansas politician-soldier Jim Lane and President Abraham Lincoln was cemented when Lane and a small group of Kansans guarded the president in the White House early in the Civil War, says Lane biographer Robert Collins.

Collins wrote "Jim Lane: Scoundrel, Statesman, Kansan" because there hasn't been a biography about Lane for 40 years.

In April 1861, the Civil War had just erupted, Union troops hadn't arrived in Washington, D.C., the Confederates were nearby in Virginia and Maryland, and Lincoln was the newly elected president, Collins said.

Lane, who had met the future president when he campaigned in Kansas in 1859, and the Frontier Guard, ...

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