Editing Sacking of Lawrence (section)

==Aftermath==

While the Free State Hotel was destroyed, Shalor Eldridge purchased the charred remnants of the structure and rebuilt it as the "[[The Eldridge Hotel|Eldridge House]]". This building remained a fixture of Lawrence until 1863, when it was burned down by [[William Quantrill]] during the [[Lawrence Massacre]] (after which it would be rebuilt two more times, in 1866 and 1926).<ref name=outstory>{{cite web|title=Our Story|url=http://eldridgehotel.com/our-story/|publisher=Eldridge Hotel|access-date=April 24, 2017|archive-date=February 24, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170224070650/http://eldridgehotel.com/our-story/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

For a number of months after the Sack of Lawrence, the city was without a free state newspaper. This was exacerbated by the fact that Josiah Miller, who ran the ''Kansas Free State'', decided not to start his former paper up again. The lack of a Lawrence-based news source ended when George Brown restarted the ''Herald of Freedom'' in November.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sutton |first1=Robert |title=Stark Mad Abolitionists: Lawrence, Kansas, and the Battle over Slavery in the Civil War Era |date=2017 |publisher=[[Skyhorse Publishing]] |location=[[New York City, NY]] |isbn=9781510716513}}</ref>

The Sack of Lawrence resulted in the loss of the city's only cannon. This would be at least one reason that Free-Staters would attack [[Franklin's Fort]] in June and August of 1856, as they hoped to secure the "Old Sacramento" cannon for their own use.<ref>{{cite book|author=Cordley, Richard|title=A History of Lawrence Kansas, from the Earliest Settlement to the Close of the Rebellion|publisher=Lawrence Journal Press|location=[[Lawrence, KS]]|year=1895|url=http://www.kancoll.org/books/cordley_history/ch_ch07.htm|chapter=Chapter VII|access-date=October 2, 2017}}{{dead link|date=December 2020|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>