Reminiscences of Quantrill's Raid 1870

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Reminiscences of Quantrill's Raid 1870

http://hdl.handle.net/10407/4880546109

40 leaves. 30.5 cm.; At head of title: The only true history of Quantrill's raid ever published.; Typescript and Typescript (carbon copy).

University of Kansas Kenneth Spencer Research Library Kanas Collection

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Shea, John C.

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Quantrill, William Clarke, 1837-1865

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William Clarke Quantrill was born in Canal Dover, Ohio in 1837. He came to Kansas as a young man, and taught school for a while before he became active in the border wars, between free state and pro-slavery forces in the fight for Kansas statehood. He fought on the Confederate side during the Civil War, participating in guerrilla warfare. His most infamous act as a guerrilla chief was the sack of Lawrence in the early morning of August 21, 1863. Quantrill died two years after the raid in a milit...