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William Clarke Quantrill (1837-1865)

Leader of perhaps the most savage fighting unit in the Civil War, William Quantrill developed a style of guerrilla warfare that terrorized civilians and soldiers alike. Quantrill was born in 1837 in Ohio, but little is known of his early life. It appears that after being a schoolteacher for several years, he travelled to Utah in 1858 with an army wagon train and there made his living as a gambler, using the alias of Charles Hart. After a year, he moved to Lawrence, Kansas, where he was again a schoolteacher from 1859 to 1860. But his past and predisposition soon caught up with him and, wanted for murder and horse theft, Quantrill fled to Missouri in late 1860.

 

Quantrill entered the Civil War on the Confederate side with enthusiasm. By late 1861, he was the leader of Quantrill's Raiders, a small force of no more than a dozen men who harassed Union soldiers and sympathizers along the Kansas-Missouri border and often clashed with Jayhawkers, the pro-Union guerrilla bands that reversed Quantrill's tactics by staging raids from Kansas into Missouri. Union forces soon declared him an outlaw, and the Confederacy officially made him a captain. To his supporters in Missouri, he was a dashing, free-spirited hero. Scissors-32x32.png

http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/i_r/quantrill.htm

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The TRUE Story of the Missouri / Kansas Border War!

Thanks for joining us here at Edwards Productions, llc as we explore the exciting TRUE story of the Missouri / Kansas border war! William Clark Quantrill, “Bloody” Bill Anderson and the many other Missouri bushwhackers who fought during the war continue to be controversial in the history of Kansas and Missouri. Quantrill himself was born in Canal Dover, Ohio, but left home to go out west in the hopes of making a fortune. He arrived in the Kansas Territory in 1857, and began teaching school in the town of Stanton. Finding himself involved in the turmoil of “Bleeding Kansas”, Quantrill ended up supporting the South as a private in Missouri’s pro-Confederate State Guard under the command of Maj. Gen. Sterling Price (a former governor of Missouri). Having fought at the Battles of Wilson’s Creek, Drywood Creek and Lexington, Quantrill found himself leading a group of Missouri guerrillas, who waged a vicious war against Union authorities.  :snip:  https://edwardsproductionsllc.com/2018/03/15/the-true-story-of-the-missouri-kansas-border-war/

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