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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 836 0 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 690 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 532 0 Browse Search
John M. Schofield, Forty-six years in the Army 480 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore) 406 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 350 0 Browse Search
Wiley Britton, Memoirs of the Rebellion on the Border 1863. 332 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2. 322 0 Browse Search
Col. John M. Harrell, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.2, Arkansas (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 310 0 Browse Search
Col. John C. Moore, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 9.2, Missouri (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 294 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: September 17, 1862., [Electronic resource], Corcoran. (search)
Quantrell, the partisan. --Quantrell, the famous partisan leader in Missouri, was at one time a leader in the raids of the Kansas Jayhawkers, to which body he belonged for a year. The story runs thus. Quantrell, together with his brother and a party of companions, determined to visit California, and purchasing an outfit, they started across the plains. Hardly had they passed the limits of Kansas, when they were set upon by Jenison's and Montgomery's band of Jayhawkers, who took Quantrela bloody retribution. He became a favorite and was elected a Lieutenant, holding a great share of the Jayhawkers' confidence. At last, the time for active revenge was at hand. He disclosed his history and plan to the Confederate forces in Missouri, stating that he knew every haunt and hiding place of the Jayhawkers, and was willing and ready to lead them. He returned to the Jayhawkers, induced a party of thirty to follow him into an ambuscade, where they were all killed and taken prisone