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William Clarke Quantrill (July 31, 1837 – June 6, 1865) was a Confederate guerrilla leader during the American Civil War.. Quantrill experienced a turbulent childhood, became a schoolteacher, and joined a group of bandits who roamed the Missouri and Kansas countryside to apprehend escaped slaves.
William Clarke Quantrill: His Life and Times (1999) excerpt and text search; Thomas Goodrich, Bloody Dawn: The Story of the Lawrence Massacre (1992) [ISBN missing] Paul I. Wellman. A Dynasty of Western Outlaws (1961). (On the formative background of the Kansas-Missouri border wars on the post-war western outlaws, notably the James-Younger gang.)
John Noland (c. 1844 – June 25, 1908) was an enslaved man who was the personal servant of bushwhacker William C. Quantrill during the American Civil War. [1] Noland was a chattel slave owned by Francis Asbury Noland in Jackson County, Missouri.
Quantrill was educated at Colston's School and Durham University, graduating with a first-class BA in French. [1] He was Secretary of Hatfield College JCR in 1959, and also represented the college at rugby. [2] Quantrill joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1962. [1] He was appointed to HM Diplomatic Service in December 1965. [3]
James J. Chiles (May 1, 1833 – September 21, 1873), also known as Jim Crow Chiles, was a Confederate outlaw who fought with Quantrill's Raiders. Personal life [ edit ]
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Quantrill's guerrillas, as a group, did not maintain operations in winters along the border. Quantrill took his men to Cedar Mills, Texas, over winter and offered his services to the Confederacy. Their assignments included attacking teamsters who supplied the Union, repelling Union and Jayhawker raids into northern Texas, warding off Indian ...
[21] [f] William Quantrill, a Confederate guerrilla leader, later claimed to have encountered Reed's company in July and rebuked them for robbing Confederate sympathizers; [22] in their biography of Anderson, Albert Castel and Tom Goodrich speculate that this rebuke may have resulted in a deep resentment of Quantrill by Anderson. [21]