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Author | : John Mccorkle |
Publisher | : Legare Street Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-10-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781016861298 |
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Author | : John McCorkle |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780806124513 |
The author describes his experiences during the Civil War
Author | : Albert Castel |
Publisher | : University Press of Kansas |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2006-05-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0700614346 |
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.
Author | : Kit Dalton |
Publisher | : Independently Published |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2019-03-14 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781090499820 |
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.
Author | : Tom McKenney |
Publisher | : Pelican Publishing |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2010-09-23 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781455606467 |
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.
Author | : William Elsey Connelley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : Guerrillas |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Paul R. Petersen |
Publisher | : Pelican Publishing Company, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2011-04-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781589809093 |
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.
Author | : Paul R. Petersen |
Publisher | : Cumberland House Publishing |
Total Pages | : 548 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781581823592 |
One will not find the name of William Clarke Quantrill in the pantheon of noble Civil War personalities but rather listed near the top of the list of its notorious scoundrels. He has been demonized as the devil incarnate, and most historical accounts portray him as a sadistic, pitiless, bloodthirsty killer. That image, however, did not ring true to Paul R. Petersen when he weighed it against the man's wartime accomplishments. When he began researching Quantrill of Missouri, he found that much of the lore that has been accepted as fact had been recorded by those who fought against Quantrill. In short, the victors wrote the history. Petersen asks, "How could this so-called fiend have been a respected schoolteacher? How could he have organized and led up to four hundred men in the most noted band of guerrilla fighters known to history? How could he be so hated by his own men and still lead them in the most renowned battles through Missouri, winning victories over superior Union forces? Others entrusted their sons to him. Others served him as spies. Women willingly tended his wounded, and his followers even guarded him in battle. Most of his people were God-fearing farmers...God-fearing, righteous people would not have followed a depraved, degenerate, psychotic killer."
Author | : Edward E. Leslie |
Publisher | : Da Capo Press |
Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 1998-08-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780306808654 |
Brilliantly weaving together eyewitness accounts, letters, memories, newspaper articles, and military reports into a riveting narrative, this definitive biography reveals the personality of William Clarke Quantrill (1837–1865) and the events that transformed a quiet Ohio schoolteacher from a staunchly Unionist family into a virulent pro-slavery Confederate soldier and the most feared and despised guerrilla chieftain of the Civil War. This groundbreaking work includes the most accurate account ever written of the 1863 Lawrence, Kansas massacre (the greatest atrocity of the Civil War), when Quantrill and 450 raiders torched the Unionist town and executed roughly 200 unarmed, unresisting men and teenage boys. It also details the postwar outlaw careers of those who rode with him—Frank and Jesse James, and Cole Younger. No other history so fully penetrates the myth of a cardboard-cutout psychopath to expose Quantrill in all his brutality and human complexity.
Author | : Th Goodrich |
Publisher | : Kent State University Press |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780873384766 |
Describes the events leading to the August, 1863 attack on Lawrence, Kansas by William Quantrill and his Confederate irregulars.