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	William Quantrill Biography - Quantrill's Raiders (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
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		William Clarke Quantrill was born July 3, 1837 in Dover, Ohio to Thomas Henry and Caroline Cornelia (Clarke) Quantrill.
		In 1862, Quantrill was commissioned as a captain as a Missouri Partisan Ranger by Colonel Thompson and was declared an outlaw by the Union Army.
	www.geocities.com /quantrill_raiders (2471 words)

	William Clarke Quantrill
		The name of William Clarke Quantrill was burned into the pages of the history of Kansas during the Civil War, as this leader of a murderous band of guerillas terrorized the settlements of eastern Kansas from 1861-1864.
		Quantrill's new career began with a scheme of stealing slaves and horses from Missouri and reselling them to the highest bidder, preferably not their previous owner.
		Quantrill's tactics were ruthless and unmerciful; the best example being the well-known raid on Lawrence in 1863.
	www.kshs.org /portraits/quantrill_william_c.htm (404 words)

	William Quantrill and the Lawrence Massacre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Quantrill adapted well to the ruthless chaos that Civil War brought to the Southwest, and until 1864 was the most popular and powerful leader of the various bands of Border Ruffians that pillaged the area.
		Although the raid was indeed a crushing blow to the Free State community in Kansas, it failed in one of its goals of executing prominent Lawerence residents such as Charles Robinson and the hated Jim Lane.
		Quantrill's raid stands out in history as being not only one of the more gruesome events of the Civil War, but also the climax of the border conflict between Missouri and Kansas.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~HYPER/HNS/Kansas/quantril.html (513 words)

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		William was the first of eight children born to Caroline Cornelia Clarke Quantrill and Thomas Henry Quantrill.
		In July of 1859 William wrote his mother that a friend and he were violently attacked by a band of Jayhawkers on the banks of the Little Cottonwood River in Missouri and robbed of their horses and all their belongings.
		Quantrill was taken to the military prison hospital in Louisville.
	www.quantrillsraidersscvcamp.com /page2.html (1309 words)

	Wicked USA - Outlaws - William C. Quantrill
		In August 1861, Quantrill organized a group of renegades in the Kansas-Missouri area and fought with the Confederate forces at the battle of Wilson's Creek in Oakhills, Missouri.
		Quantrill's role in the capture of Independence, Missouri, led him to being commissioned a captain in the Confederate Army.
		Quantrill and his men were to help round up the increasing number of deserters and conscription dodgers in North Texas.
	wickedusa.com /outlaws/quantrill.html (735 words)

	Kansas Civil War Battle Lawrence American Civil War
		This terrible event gave Quantrill a reason to revolt against the town in Kansas that had embarrassed him by trying to arrest him right before the Civil War, which he was hoping to fight in.
		William Clarke Quantrill was a man who was one of a kind, at least we hope so.
		Quantrill was a man who lived a dangerous life and in the end had a long, painful death.
	www.civilwarhistory.com /quantrill/quantrill.htm (1657 words)

	Quantrill's Raid on Lawrence: A Question of Complicity, by Burton J. Williams, Summer 1968
		Quantrill's famous or infamous raid upon the sleeping town of Lawrence in the predawn hours of August 21, 1863, has been the subject of endless discourse and debate.
		William C. Quantrill (right), leader of the villainous gang, was not wearing his Confederate uniform when he caught Lawrence napping that August morn.
		He concluded, however, that Sallie was not in collusion with Quantrill and that she in fact labored valiantly to save the lives and property of her friends.
	www.kancoll.org /khq/1968/68_2_williams.htm (2679 words)

	The Missouri Partisan Ranger - William C. Quantrill
		William Clarke Quantrill, a school teacher from Canal Dover Ohio, came to Kansas in 1857 to farm.
		In the end, William Clarke Quantrill was shot and later died in 1865.
		Captain Quantrill was trapped in barn on the James H. Wakefield farm, about one mile from Smiley, Kentucky by Edward Terrell and his cavalry detachment of hired assassins on May 10, 1865.
	www.rulen.com /partisan/quantrel.htm (478 words)

	William Quntrill - The Man, The Myth, The Soldier by Paul Petersen
		Author William Elsey Connelley said that Quantrill's father was an embezzler and thief and was looked down upon by his neighbors.
		Quantrill was described as being fiendish for skinning neighbor’s cats and shooting pigs through their ears just to listen to them squeal.
		One of Quantrill's men stated after the war “You who were not there can not realize for a moment the dreadful passions that were roused in the hearts of men during those fearful years.” The Missouri border during the Civil War was the scene of the greatest savagery in American history.
	www.legendsofamerica.com /MO-Quantrill-Petersen.html (904 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		Quantrill's role in the capture of Independence, however, led to his being commissioned a captain in the Confederate Army.
		This winter camp was necessary, in part, for Quantrill's men to escape retribution for two of their recent affairs, the first being their infamous sack of Lawrence, Kansas, on August 21, 1863, during which they looted the town and shot approximately 180 men and boys.
		Quantrill is credited with ending a near-riot of county "war widows" who were convinced that the Confederate commissary in Sherman was withholding from them such "luxury goods" as coffee, tea, and sugar.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/QQ/fqu3.html (990 words)

	William Quantrill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Clarke Quantrill (July 31, 1837 – June 6, 1865), was a pro-Confederate guerrilla fighter during the American Civil War whose actions, particularly a bloody raid on Lawrence, Kansas, remain controversial to this day.
		In the early morning of August 21, Quantrill descended from atop Mount Oread and attacked Lawrence with a force estimated at anywhere from 200 to 450 raiders.
		Quantrill's Raiders (1958), focusing on the raid on Lawrence.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Quantrill (1466 words)

	Quantrill's Head and Skull, Dover, Ohio
		What makes Quantrill's head our kind of attraction, aside from being an odd Confederate artifact in the Union state of Ohio, is that the Society stores it in a vintage refrigerator, alongside a bottle of ketchup and other condiments.
		Captain William Quantrill was a terrorist, or freedom fighter against an occupying force, depending on your perspective.
		Quantrill was shot by Union troops in 1865 near Taylorville, Kentuck, and died in a hospital in Louisville, Kentucky on June 6, 1865.
	www.roadsideamerica.com /attract/OHDOVquantrill.html (1124 words)

	William Clarke Quantrill, Charley Hart (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		William Charles Quantrill was born in Ohio in 1837.
		Quantrill led a force of about 450 raiders into Lawrence, Kansas on August 21, 1863, where they killed about 200 male residents and burned most of the town.
		Quantrill began to lose control over his men in late 1864, and was killed by Federal troops in a surprise raid in Kentucky in 1865.
	ehistory.osu.edu /World/PeopleView.cfm?PID=333 (190 words)

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		Bassham, Ike + Quantrill Killed Jan 1863 at Wigginton's house, Andrew County, MO. Bassham, Solomon + Quantrill* Survived war Bassham, William + Quantrill, Todd Survived war Surrendered at Smiley, KY. Sentenced to be shot 11 Aug 63 at Independence, MO. Employed as an overland mail-carrier of the Federal Government before the war.
		Quantrill attended the funeral, leaning on a cane from his own wound in the leg.
		Harris, Thomas + Quantrill Harrison, Ki + Quantrill Hart, Joe + Quantrill Killed 1864 Hays, John (William) + Quantrill Hays, Perry + Quantrill Killed 1863 Hays (Hayes), Col. Upton Quantrill Killed 1862 This may be the colonel that General Hindman sent into MO to recruit.
	www.kansasheritage.org /research/quantrill.txt (5996 words)

	Amazon.de: Quantrill's War: The Life and Times of William Clarke Quantrill 1837-1865: English Books: Duane Schultz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Schultz is a novelist (Glory Enough for All, 1993) as well as a historian, and he retells Quantrill's life with dramatic flourish?his re-creation of the Lawrence, Kans., massacre and of the pursuit of Quantrill by scattered Union forces is particularly exciting.
		According to Duane Schultz, Cpt Quantrill was a man hungry of power and thirsty of vengeance; a common outlaw and a killer.
		The author tried to picture the psychological's profile of William Quantrill and sometimes gives subjectives affirmations to convince the readers he was the fiend incarnate.
	www.amazon.de /Quantrills-War-William-Quantrill-1837-1865/dp/0312147104 (728 words)

	PBS - THE WEST - William Clarke Quantrill
		Quantrill was born in 1837 in Ohio, but little is known of his early life.
		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.
		Lane managed to escape, racing through a cornfield in his nightshirt, but Quantrill and his men killed 183 men and boys, dragging some from their homes to murder them in front of their families, and set the torch to much of the city.
	www.pbs.org /weta/thewest/people/i_r/quantrill.htm (369 words)

	William Quantrill - MSN Encarta
		Quantrill, William Clarke (1837-1865), American Confederate guerrilla commander.
		William Clarke Quantrill was born in Canal Dover (now Dover), Ohio....
		William Clarke Quantrill [New Perspectives on the West]
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761577776/William_Quantrill.html (45 words)

	William Quantrill
		William Quantrill was born in Ohio on 31st July 1837.
		Quantrill also tried his hand as a professional gambler but this was not successful and he found work as a teacher in Lawrence.
		William Quantrill was shot and died from his wounds on 6th June, 1865.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /WWquantrill.htm (374 words)

	William Quantrill
		William Quantrill was born in 1837 in Dover, Ohio.
		Quantrill's gang then split up in smaller groups.
		William Quantrill was one of the most notorious and dangerous men in America's history.
	warrensburg.k12.mo.us /vw/scheuerell/quantrill (556 words)

	William Clarke Quantrill
		Quantrill apparently made his living by gambling, but later moved to an area near Lawrence, Kansas and taught in the years 1859-60.
		Quantrill had a history of quarreling with his superiors and lost the support of some of his men.
		Marck William Clarke Quantrill The man who grew to be one of, if not the most feared and ruthless in the Confederacy was born in Canal Dover, Ohio on July 31, 1837.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h408.html (461 words)

	Amazon.ca: Quantrill's War: The Life & Times of William Clarke Quantrill, 1837-1865: Books: Duane P. Schultz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Quantrill and his band, including names later famous in the West, such as Cole Younger and Frank and Jesse James, fought as irregular guerrillas in Missouri and Kansas.
		While it is doubtful that Quantrill did indeed torture small animals as a boy in Ohio, as Schultz claims, there is no question he was a butcher, as Schultz's excellent account of the sack of Lawrence, Kansas, shows.
		"Quantrill's War" by military historian and psychology professor Duane Schultz is meticulously researched and as fast-paced as a John Grisham novel.
	www.amazon.ca /Quantrills-War-William-Quantrill-1837-1865/dp/0312169728 (1594 words)

	Quantrill
		William Quantrill was born in 1837 in Canal Dover, Ohio where he was a school teacher.
		Quantrill developed a style of guerrilla warfare raiding farms and communities sympathetic to the union.
		Quantrill's raiders included Frank and Jessie James, Cole and Jim Younger who later used some of the guirrilla tactics for robberies.
	goodies.freeservers.com /quantrill.html (217 words)

	In Pursuit of Quantrill: An Enlisted Man's Response, William E. Unrau, ed., Autumn 1973
		WILLIAM QUANTRILL'S surprise raid on Lawrence still stands as one of the most successful -- and vicious -- attacks in the history of American civil conflict.
		Whether Quantrill's regrettable action stemmed from an unwavering belief in the virtue of the Proslavery cause is no more certain than characterizing him as a cheap, bloodthirsty thug, whose performance was completely devoid of reason and/or ideological justification.
		William O. Collins, and was killed in action against the Sioux Indian at Platte Bridge, D. T., on July 26, 1865.
	www.kancoll.org /khq/1973/73_3_unrau.htm (4732 words)

	The Missouri Partisan Ranger - Quantrill vs. Quantrell
		William C. Quantrill accepted it himself, and gave a deep and heartfelt thank you to Annie.
		Quantrill's men then gave 3 cheers, waving their hats, and giving full approvals, honors and recognition to this 20 year old Missouri girl who had risked her life to make this gift.
		The fable goes that it was carried by one Quantrill's men and dropped in the public square.
	www.rulen.com /partisan/2_qs.htm (858 words)

	William Quntrill - Renegade Leader of the Civil War
		Leader of the most savage fighting band in the Bleeding Kansas/Missouri Border War, William Quantrill will long be known as the most ruthless bushwhacker during these turbulent times.
		Born on July 31, 1837 to Thomas Henry and Caroline Cornelia (Clarke) Quantrill, the boy displayed his cruel tendencies even as a child.
		By late in the year, Quantrill became unhappy with the Confederates’ reluctance to aggressively prosecute the Union troops.
	www.legendsofamerica.com /MO-Quantrill.html (733 words)

	Jesse James: Riding Hell-Bent for Leather into Legend
		Quantrill's boys were, in large, renegades whose penchant for looting and pillaging exceeded their loyalty to, what true Southern gentlemen, called "The Cause".
		But Quantrill proved to be an escape artist, hiding his hordes in the hills along the Kansas-Missouri border.
		Quantrill eventually went the way of his sanguinary lieutenant, Anderson, when a federal patrol blew him off his saddle in Kentucky.
	www.crimelibrary.com /gangsters_outlaws/outlaws/james/3.html (2153 words)

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