Three years with Quantrell : a true story / told by his scout John McCorkle ; written by O.S. Barton. [19--?]

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Three years with Quantrell : a true story / told by his scout John McCorkle ; written by O.S. Barton. [19--?]

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176 leaves ; 29 cm.

Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library

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Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library

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McCorkle, John, 1838-1918

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American physician. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Brooklyn, N.Y., to Dr. Baldwin, 1906 Sept. 14. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270859984 ...

Barton, O. S. (Oswald Swinney), 1862-1925

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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...