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The Lawrence massacre is a central episode in Wildwood Boys (William Morrow: New York, 2000), a biographical novel about Bloody Bill Anderson by James Carlos Blake. The battle is also depicted in the Steven Spielberg -produced 2005 miniseries Into the West and in Ang Lee 's 1999 film Ride with the Devil , as well as the Audie Murphy western ...
During Quantrill's raid, Quantrill and his men burned 185 buildings in Lawrence, KS and killed 182 men and boys. [8] Lawrence was the historic base of operations for abolitionist and Jayhawker organizations. Pro-slavery forces also operated in the area, as both sides tried to gain power to determine whether Kansas would allow slavery.
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.
In October 1862, George Bell paid sixty dollars for an empty lot and construction on the house began. On August 21, 1863, he and his family were residing in the unfinished house during Quantrill's raid. George Bell attempted to defend Lawrence from the attack, but was shot and killed.
Two upstate New York properties connected to the notorious Gambino crime family are now being searched for human remains – days after 10 alleged mob members and associates were busted in a ...
NBC News reported on March 25 that “three women and a man” were interviewed by federal agents in New York. Three other interviews are reportedly scheduled connected to the allegations of ...
Quantrill's Raid into Lawrence, Kansas destroyed much of the city The first action in Kansas was not between the rival Union and Confederate armies; it was an 1863 guerrilla raid by pro-slavery " bushwhackers ", led by William C. Quantrill , who descended on Lawrence , a center of anti-slavery Unionist sentiment, and proceeded to sack the town ...
A former New York prosecutor and retired judge reportedly took his own life Tuesday during an apparent shootout with the FBI as agents descended on his home to arrest him in a federal corruption case.