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Potosi’s post in eastern Linn County Kansas was established at the small town of Potosi Kansas founded in 1857 by those loyal to the southern cause in Kansas. The other side the free-staters soone gained control of the town and it was loyal to the Union when the Civil War broke out in 1861. Potosi was located along the north bank of Mine Creek and it was along the military road running from Fort Leavenworth to Fort Gibson.