Interviews concerning the Quantrill Raid on Lawrence, KS, Aug. 21, 1863, 1906-1909.

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Interviews concerning the Quantrill Raid on Lawrence, KS, Aug. 21, 1863, 1906-1909.

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Reports of interviews conducted with five persons who knew Quantrill or who survived his August 21, 1863 raid on Lawrence, Kansas. Each of the persons interviewed had a different perspective of Quantrill or of the raid; two also mention John Brown and his activities of 1856. The three 1909 reports are accompanied by typed transcripts of the written documents.

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Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library

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Truman State University, Pickler Memorial Library

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Connelly, William Elsey, 1855-1930.

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William Elsey Connelley was born in Kentucky in 1855. He taught school there for ten years. In 1881 he moved to Bonner Springs, Kansas, where he assumed the principalship of the public schools there. In 1882 he was appointed deputy county clerk of Wyandotte County, and was elected county clerk in 1883 and 1885. He served in the Kansas State Historical Society as president in 1912 and secretary in 1914. He was the author of many historical articles and books including History of Kansas, State and...