Oral history interview transcript of Joseph Harold Akers, August 27, 1986.

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Oral history interview transcript of Joseph Harold Akers, August 27, 1986.

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Copy of interview regarding Akers' family's association with the pre-Civil War and Missouri-Kansas border conflicts, including mention of Quantrill and Order Number 11. In addition to Akers and Hindle ancestors, "Aunt Jane Miller" and "Aunt Melvina A. Parsons" are mentioned in connection with the Border War.

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Akers, Gary Steven.

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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...

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