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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.
The Lawrence Massacre (also known as Quantrill's Raid) was an attack during the American Civil War (1861–65) by Quantrill's Raiders, a Confederate guerrilla group led by William Quantrill, on the Unionist town of Lawrence, Kansas, killing around 150 men and boys.
Regional history regarding Quantrill includes the name "Quantrell". Annie Fickle of Lafeyette County, MO, May 1862 presented a battle flag to Quantrill's men in thanks for helping her get out of yankee incarceration on the charge of aiding the partisans. In red letters, she stitched the name "Quantrell", a mis-spelling, on the Black Flag.
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Leslie's "The Devil Knows How to Ride", widely considered one of the fairest and most accurate accounts of Quantrill, has nary a word of this. Rather, Leslie points out that were Quantrill personally intervened, it was to save lives (e.g., the men in the Eldridge House who had surrendered).
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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 ...