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Submitted: 1/29/14 • Approved: 1/29/14 • Last Updated: 4/9/18 • R747176-G0-S3
Born at Canal Dover, Ohio, on July 31, 1837
Died at the military prison at Louisville, Kentucky, on June 6, 1865
This is but one of three graves where parts of the leader of the Quantrill raiders are buried. On August 21, 1863, William Quantrill, led his men in one of the most infamous raids in history. Lawrence, Kansas, was Quantrill’s hometown and it would offer no resistance as three hundred and fifty bushwhackers and one hundred Confederate recruits Quantrill had invited to accompany them rode into town to rob, loot, burn and kill. Women and children were to be spared, but teenaged boys and men were shot down where ever they could be found. Bloody Bill Anderson was responsible for fourteen killings, more than any of Quantrill’s other chieftains. They departed Lawrence at 9:00 a.m., four hours after they arrived. They left behind more than 180 dead men and boys and hundreds of devastated females
Contributed on 1/29/14 by tomtodd
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