William Addison Phillips (1824–1893) was a Free-State Abolitionist journalist during the "Bleeding Kansas" period.

He was admitted to the bar in 1855 and commenced practice in Lawrence, Kansas, working also as a correspondent for the New York Tribune.

In 1858, he settled and founded the city of Salina, Kansas with a wagon circle against constant threat by hostile tribes.

[1][2] During the American Civil War, though offered a large sum to be a correspondent at the front, he entered the Union Army as a volunteer, and raised some of the first troops in Kansas in 1861.

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