William Clarke Quantrill Kentucky 1865

by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr

Overview

William Clarke Quantrill was a famous bushwhacker who led an infamous raid on Lawrence, Kansas on August 21, 1863. My e-book looks at Quantrill's late 1864 move into Kentucky, which by then had become a much more fervent theater for bushwhacking than Missouri. The defeat of Confederate General Sterling Price's Missouri raid in 1864 concluded the Confederate cause in that state. I look closely at Quantrill, his aims in going to Kentucky and the men who were his followers. The Kansas-born Confederate guerrilla found sympathizers loyal to the CSA cause, particularly in Nelson County, KY. In fact Quantrill had taken up in the barn of Confederate sympathizer James Wakefield when he and his band were surprised by Union troops under Edwin Terrell on the morning of May 10, 1865.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940152373349
Publisher:	Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
Publication date:	09/24/2015
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	178 KB

About the Author

I am a soon to be retired Duke Medical Center library researcher, who enjoys writing. I have been writing on Wikipedia for years and have begun to write ebooks. My pastimes include selling books on EBay, genealogical research, baseball (Pittsburgh Pirates), collecting antique furniture and coins, and spending time with Kingsley, my cocker spaniel.