Anne Sanderson Smith papers, 1934-1973.

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Anne Sanderson Smith papers, 1934-1973.

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Papers compiled by Smith as part of her research for her master's thesis, which was never completed due to her marriage. The material deals with her efforts to prove that Capt. Leonard Josiah Crocker of Woodruff County, Ark., assumed the name Quantrell during the Civil War and led a gang of guerilla fighters in Missouri. It was reported that Quantrell died in prison toward the end of the war, but Smith hoped to prove otherwise.

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Arkansas History Commission, Department of Archives and History

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Smith, Anne Sanderson

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Graduate student in the 1930s; residing at that time in Gregory, Ark. From the description of Anne Sanderson Smith papers, 1934-1973. (Arkansas History Commission). WorldCat record id: 71130354 ...

Crocker, Leonard Josiah

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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...