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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.
Quantrill's interest in a mine, owned by Delilah, pits him against foreman Lance Horton, who is secretly a Confederate spy. Sally falls in love with Lance, who is wounded in a gunfight. After saving Kate's life during the melee, the women join forces. Sally prevents the arrest of Lance by claiming to be the spy herself.
The Lone Ranger episode "The Twisted Track" (1956) is about a member of Quantrill's Raiders (William Henry) seeking revenge against a Union officer. Though historically inaccurate, Allied Artists Pictures made a B-Western entitled Quantrill’s Raiders (1958), starring Steve Cochran as a fictionalized hero and with Leo Gordon as the title ...
Articles relating to Quantrill's Raiders (1861-1865), their membership, and their depictions. They were the best-known of the pro-Confederate partisan guerrillas (also known as "bushwhackers") who fought in the American Civil War. Their leader was William Quantrill and they included Jesse James and his brother Frank.
In late 1863, Quantrill's Raiders, a large band of pro-Confederate bushwhackers led by William Quantrill, was traveling south through Kansas along the Texas Road to winter in Texas. Numbering about 400, this group captured and killed two Union teamsters who had come from a small Federal Army post called Fort Baxter (frequently referred to as ...
A Thibodaux family's camping tradition will place them on the Family Feud stage. Andrew Benoit-Naquin, 25, and four family members will be on the show, Wednesday, May 22, at 4:30 p.m. on channel 4 ...
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.
When the Confederacy disowns Quantrill for his war crimes, most of the raiders abandon Quantrill except for Jesse. Quantrill is blinded during an escape, and neither Jesse or Kate can bring themselves to abandon him. When Union troops surround their hideout, they are led by the same Union officer whose life Jesse saved.