Embury D. Osband letter, 1864 Jan. 8.

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Embury D. Osband letter, 1864 Jan. 8.

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In a letter to Lieutenant Colonel William T. Clark, Assistant Adjutant General to the 17th Army Corps, Colonel Embury D. Osband describes raids by Confederate forces in western Mississippi and Confederate plans to supply ammunition to Shreveport, La., by John Whitfield and William Quantrill. He also requests six cannon, 100 horses, and a regiment of infantry to attack Confederate raiders. The letter was written from his base at Skipwith's Landing, Miss., on the Mississippi River.

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Osband, Embury D., d. 1866.

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Major Embury D. Osband commanded General Ulysses S. Grant's personal escort, Company A of the Fourth Illinois Cavalry. He was made colonel of the Third United States Colored Cavalry (initially called the First Mississippi Cavalry, African Descent), which was raised and equipped at Vicksburg, Miss., in September 1863. Beginning October 9, 1863, using Vicksburg as its base, the Third U.S. Colored Cavalry raided into Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Mississippi, tearing up track, burning bridges...

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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...