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Book Three Years with Quantrill

Download or read book Three Years with Quantrill written by John McCorkle and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author describes his experiences during the Civil War

Book THREE YEARS WITH QUANTRELL

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  • Author : JOHN. MCCORKLE
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018
  • ISBN : 9781033274910
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book THREE YEARS WITH QUANTRELL written by JOHN. MCCORKLE and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Three Years with Quantrell

Download or read book Three Years with Quantrell written by John McCorkle and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bloody Bill Anderson

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  • Author : Albert Castel
  • Publisher : University Press of Kansas
  • Release : 2006-05-02
  • ISBN : 0700614346
  • Pages : 192 pages

Download or read book Bloody Bill Anderson written by Albert Castel and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2006-05-02 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nowhere was the Civil War as savage as it was in Missouri-and nowhere did it produce a killer more savage than William Anderson. For a brief but dramatic period, "Bloody Bill" played the leading role in the most violent arena of the entire war--and did so with a vicious abandon that spread fear throughout the land. A name associated with William Quantrill and Jesse James, Bloody Bill Anderson was known for never taking prisoners. A former horse thief turned bushwhacker, he became the scourge of Kansas and Missouri with a reputation for unspeakable atrocities. Sometimes he left the bodies of dead Federal soldiers scalped, skinned, and castrated. Sometimes he decapitated them and rearranged their heads. Wherever Bloody Bill rode, the Grim Reaper rode alongside. In telling this story of bitter bloodshed, historians Castel and Goodrich track Bloody Bill's reign of terror over increasingly violent raids. He rode with Quantrill in the infamous sack of Lawrence and killed more victims than any other raider. Then he led the brutal Centralia Massacre, a blood-soaked nightmare recounted here hour-by-hour from firsthand accounts. More than compiling a chronicle of horrors, Castel and Goodrich have produced the first full-fledged account of Anderson's career. They examine his prewar life, explain how he became a guerrilla, then describe the war that he and his men waged against Union soldiers and defenseless civilians alike. The authors' disagreements on many aspects of Anderson's gruesome career add a fascinating dimension to the book. Only 26 when he was killed charging an ambush, Bloody Bill Anderson had already become a legend. This book takes readers behind the legend and provides a closer look at the man-and at the face of terror.

Book Rebel Guerrillas

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  • Author : Paul Williams
  • Publisher : McFarland
  • Release : 2018-10-30
  • ISBN : 1476675732
  • Pages : 222 pages

Download or read book Rebel Guerrillas written by Paul Williams and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the hills and valleys of the eastern Confederate states to the sun-drenched plains of Missouri and "Bleeding Kansas," a vicious, clandestine war was fought behind the big-battle clashes of the American Civil War. In the east, John Singleton Mosby became renowned for the daring hit-and-run tactics of his rebel horsemen. Here a relatively civilized war was fought; women and children usually left with a roof over their heads. But along the Kansas-Missouri border it was a far more brutal clash; no quarter given. William Clarke Quantrill and William "Bloody Bill" Anderson became notorious for their savagery.

Book Quantrill at Lawrence

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  • Author : Paul R. Petersen
  • Publisher : Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.
  • Release : 2011-04-26
  • ISBN : 9781589809093
  • Pages : 388 pages

Download or read book Quantrill at Lawrence written by Paul R. Petersen and published by Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-04-26 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lawrence raid of August 21, 1863, was considered one of the bloodiest events of the Civil War. The actions that brought on the raid are researched and explored in depth here for the very first time. What is discovered is a collusion in a "legacy of lies" that surrounded the stories of the raid.

Book Three Years with Quantrell

Download or read book Three Years with Quantrell written by John McCorkle and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Three Years with Quantrell

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  • Author : O. Barton
  • Publisher : CreateSpace
  • Release : 2012-09-03
  • ISBN : 9781479247035
  • Pages : 184 pages

Download or read book Three Years with Quantrell written by O. Barton and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-09-03 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These are the recollections of John McCorkle, who was the scout for partisan Confederate ranger, Charles William Quantrell during the Civil War in Missouri.

Book Under the Black Flag

Download or read book Under the Black Flag written by Kit Dalton and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1914, this is Kit Dalton's memoirs of his time serving under William Quantrell during the American Civil War and his time as a border outlaw following the surrender of the Confederate States.

Book Three Years with Quantrill  a True Story Told by His Scout

Download or read book Three Years with Quantrill a True Story Told by His Scout written by John McCorkle and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-21 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This famous memoir by John McCorkle, is the best published account by a scout who "rode with Quantrill." John McCorkle was a young Missouri farmer of Southern sympathies. After serving briefly in the pro-Confederate Missouri State Guard, he became a prominent member of William Clarke Quantrill's infamous guerrillas, who took advantage of the turmoil in the Missouri-Kansas borderland to prey on pro-Union people.

Book Jack Hinson s One Man War

Download or read book Jack Hinson s One Man War written by Tom McKenney and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 2010-09-23 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of one man's reluctant but relentless war against the invaders of his country.A quiet, wealthy plantation owner, Jack Hinson watched the start of the Civil War with disinterest. Opposed to secession and a friend to Union and Confederate commanders alike, he did not want a war. After Union soldiers seized and murdered his sons, placing their decapitated heads on the gateposts of his estate, Hinson could remain indifferent no longer. He commissioned a special rifle for long-range accuracy, he took to the woods, and he set out for revenge. This remarkable biography presents the story of Jack Hinson, a lone Confederate sniper who, at the age of 57, waged a personal war on Grant's army and navy. The result of 15 years of scholarship, this meticulously researched and beautifully written work is the only account of Hinson's life ever recorded and involves an unbelievable cast of characters, including the Earp brothers, Jesse James, and Nathan Bedford Forrest.

Book Three Years with Quantrill

Download or read book Three Years with Quantrill written by Oswald Swinney Barton and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Civil War story told by John McCorkle about his years with William Clarke Quantrill's guerrillas, preying on pro-Union people on the Missouri-Kansas borderland.

Book Three Years With Quantrill

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  • Author : John McCorkle
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2013-12-11
  • ISBN : 9781494451240
  • Pages : 56 pages

Download or read book Three Years With Quantrill written by John McCorkle and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-12-11 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three Years with Quantrill is a 13 chapter history written by a Civil War veteran who fought with the war's most famous bushwhacker, William Quantrill. Quantrill and his group, known as Quantrill's Raider, fought irregular guerrilla warfare in Kansas and Missouri for much of the war, and they were so partisan that Quantrill was mortally wounded a month after Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox.

Book William Quantrill and Quantrills Raiders

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  • Author : Charles River Editors
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2017-11-17
  • ISBN : 9781979634984
  • Pages : 80 pages

Download or read book William Quantrill and Quantrills Raiders written by Charles River Editors and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-11-17 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Includes pictures. *Includes accounts of Quantrill's raids by one of his Raiders. *Includes footnotes and a bibliography for further reading. "In all wars there have always been, and always will be a class of men designated as guerillas, but it can be said that the Missouri guerillas are more noted than those of any war in any country for ages. Their deeds of daring, their miraculous escapes, and the physical sufferings that they endured are almost beyond belief." - John McCorkle, one of Quantrill's Raiders The Civil War is best remembered for the big battles and the legendary generals who fought on both sides, like Robert E. Lee facing off against Ulysses S. Grant in 1864. In kind, the Eastern theater has always drawn more interest and attention than the West. However, while massive armies marched around the country fighting each other, there were other small guerrilla groups that engaged in irregular warfare on the margins, and among these partisan bushwhackers, none are as infamous as William Quantrill and Quantrill's Raiders. Quantrill's Raiders operated along the border between Missouri and Kansas, which had been the scene of partisan fighting over a decade earlier during the debate over whether Kansas and Nebraska would enter the Union as free states or slave states. In "Bloody Kansas", zealous pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces fought each other, most notably John Brown, and the region became a breeding ground for individuals like Quantrill who shifted right back into similar fighting once the Civil War started. Rather than target military infrastructure or enemy soldiers, the bushwhackers rode in smaller numbers and targeted civilians on the other side of the conflict, making legends out of men like Bloody Bill Anderson and John Mosby. However, none are remembered like Quantrill and his men, not only because of their deeds during the Civil War but because of the actions of some of the former Raiders after it. Quantrill is best known for raiding Lawrence, Kansas in August 1863 and slaughtering nearly 200 boys and men between the ages of 14-90, under the pretext that they were capable of holding a gun and thus helping the Union cause. After that massacre, Union forces in the area retaliated in similar fashion, forcing Southern sympathizers out of several counties in the area and burning the property. Union forces also detained those accused of assisting Quantrill's Raiders, including their relatives. After raiding Lawrence, Quantrill's Raiders headed south, and they eventually split off into several groups. Quantrill himself was killed while fighting in June 1865, nearly two months after Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox, but his name was kept alive by the notorious deeds of his Raiders during the war and the criminal exploits of former Raiders like Jesse James and his brother, as well as the Younger brothers. These men, who had fought with Quantrill, became some of America's most famous outlaws, and they used guerrilla tactics to rob banks and trains while eluding capture. William Quantrill and Quantrill's Raiders: The Confederacy's Most Notorious Bushwhackers chronicles the life of Quantrill, the Raiders' Civil War record, and their legacy. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about Quantrill and his Raiders like never before, in no time at all.

Book Jesse James Was His Name

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  • Author : William A. Settle
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 1977-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780803258600
  • Pages : 300 pages

Download or read book Jesse James Was His Name written by William A. Settle and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1977-01-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jesse James," said Carl Sandburg, "is the only American bandit who is classical, who is to this country what Robin Hood or Dick Turpin is to England, whose exploits are so close to the mythical and apocryphal." For this definitive study no significant source of information concerning Jesse James and his brother Frank has been neglected, and from it emerges resolution of the debated point: "Were the Jameses common criminals or gallant Robin Hoods?"

Book William Clarke Quantrill  His Life And Times

Download or read book William Clarke Quantrill His Life And Times written by Alfred E. Castel and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Quantrill legend is rooted in acts of savage violence throughout Kansas and Missouri during the Civil War--deeds both romanticized and vilified. In William Clarke Quantrill, Albert Castel’s classic biography, the story of Quantrill and his men comes alive through facts verified from firsthand, original sources. Castel traces Quantrill’s rise to power, from Kansas border ruffian and Confederate Army captain to lawless leader of “the most formidable band of revolver fighters the West ever knew.” During the Civil War Quantrill and his men descended on Lawrence, Kansas, and carried out a frightful massacre of the civilian population. Some of Quantrill’s bushwhackers made names for themselves at Lawrence or after the war, as outlaws: “Bloody Bill” Anderson, Cole Younger, George Todd, “Little Archie” Clement, and Frank and Jesse James.-Print ed.

Book Quantrill and the Border Wars

Download or read book Quantrill and the Border Wars written by William Elsey Connelley and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: