[Letter from George E. Young] 1863.

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...

Young, Darius Franklin, b. 1807.

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Young, George E. (George Edwin), b. 1833.

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George Edwin Young was born in Massachusetts in 1833 to Darius Franklin Young and Abigail Young. He later lived in the Grant Township of Douglas County, Kansas. On the night of August 20, 1863, Young lodged at the Johnson House in Lawrence, Kansas enroute to Lecompton, Kansas for hired work with his horse-drawn mowing machine. He woke on the morning of August 21 to an attack on Lawrence by William Quantrill's guerrilla band, which burned the town and killed many of its citizens. Young survived t...