Henry Lewis Routt (original) (raw)

Henry L. Routt (1824–1881) was a veteran of the Mexican War and a Border Ruffian during the Bleeding Kansas troubles. He was one of those present in the first seizure of the Liberty Arsenal in 1855 and was the leader of the second seizure of the arsenal in 1861 during the American Civil War. For this and other acts he was captured, tried by a military court, sentenced to hang, but spared by Abraham Lincoln.