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About August Bondi
- August Bondi (Jewish name Anshl) (July 21, 1833, Vienna, Austria – 1907, United States) was involved in what he called the Border War, but is now usually called Bleeding Kansas, and later the American Civil War.
- In Kansas, he fought with abolitionist John Brown.August Bondi was born July 21, 1833, in Vienna, Austria.
- The Bondis, Jewish European refugees, fled the Austrian Empire after the failed revolutions of 1848 and settled in St.
- Louis, Missouri.
- August Bondi moved to Pottawatomie Creek in Franklin County, Kansas in 1855 with his business partner, Jacob Benjamin and began homesteading.
- As Free-Soilers who hated slavery, their farm was attacked and burned by “Border Ruffians” (pro-slavers).
- A neighboring farmer rushed to their aide with his sons.
- His name was John Brown.
- Bondi joined with Brown and fought alongside of him at the Battle of Black Jack in 1856, defeating the pro-slave forces, and helping enable Kansas to be admitted to the Union as a Free State on January 29, 1861.
- Bondi enlisted in the Fifth Kansas Cavalry and served until he was seriously wounded three years later.
- Bondi settled in Salina, Kansas in 1866 becoming Postmaster and later a County Judge.
- A believer in the brotherhood of all men, he rose to be a 32nd degree Mason.
- Lloyd Alexander wrote a historical novel for young people titled, "Border Hawk: August Bondi", illustrated by Bernie Krigstein.
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