Letter, 1866 October 20 : Lawrence, Kansas, to D[aniel] Bowers.

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Letter, 1866 October 20 : Lawrence, Kansas, to D[aniel] Bowers.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/29853276

A holograph which gives an account of the Quantrill raid of 1863.

4 p.

Washington State University, Holland and Terrell Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7277525

Washington State University, Holland and Terrell Libraries

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Bowers, Daniel J., 1946-

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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...

Hoag, B. H.

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