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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.
The Audie Murphy film, Kansas Raiders (1950), deals with Quantrill's Raiders in the period immediately after the Civil War, As does Arizona Raiders, also starring Audie Murphy. The film Best of the Badmen (1951) is a fictional account of the remnants of Quantrill's Raiders in the western frontier after they had surrendered to Union forces.
Quantrill's Raiders (1958) focuses on the raid on Lawrence. Leo Gordon plays Quantrill. Young Jesse James (1960) also depicts Quantrill's influence on Jesse James. In The Legend of the Golden Gun (1979), two men attempt to track down and kill Quantrill. Lawrence: Free State Fortress (1998) depicts the attack on Lawrence.
A painting of the Lawrence Massacre, in which Anderson played a leading role. Although Quantrill had considered the idea of a raid on the pro-Union stronghold that was the town of Lawrence, Kansas before the building collapsed in Kansas City, the deaths convinced the guerrillas to make a bold strike. Quantrill attained near-unanimous consent to ...
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 ...
The leader of the SWAT raid, Lawrence Guerra, who was then a special agent with the FBI, noticed that Cliatt did not match the physical description of Riley, while Michael Lemoine, another FBI ...
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.
Lawrence, who scored just five points, was subbed out of the game after just three minutes. "He wasn't doing nothing," Stackhouse said. "The energy that we need him to play with, he wasn't doing ...