Letter : typescript : Lawrence, Kan., to "Mother" [i.e. Elizabeth Musgrove Braine, his mother-in-law], 1863 Aug. 27.

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Letter : typescript : Lawrence, Kan., to "Mother" [i.e. Elizabeth Musgrove Braine, his mother-in-law], 1863 Aug. 27.

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Describes experiences of his wife and neighbors in Quantrill's Raid on Lawrence, Kan., 1863.

2 p.

Kansas State Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 7667657

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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...

Reynolds, Charles, 1817-1885.

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Episcopal clergyman; of Lawrence, Kan. From the description of Letter : typescript : Lawrence, Kan., to "Mother" [i.e. Elizabeth Musgrove Braine, his mother-in-law], 1863 Aug. 27. (Kansas State Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 53395787 ...

Braine, Elizabeth Musgrove.

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