#quantrill's raiders

[the19thcenturyfoxfoot]

William Quantrill would have been a teacher I would have liked to have. He'd be interesting. He always thought of school teaching as something he could "fall back" on, and he basically taught things he didn't believe in himself. From one source, it is believed that one of his eight grade students came to help him when he first became a raider.

[theamericanparlor]

Quantrill's Raiders-1906 Reunion- Pro-Confederate "Bushwhackers" 

The first reunion of the men who rode with William Clarke Quantrill was held in September 1898 at Blue Springs, Missouri. They continued to hold annual reunions for thirty-two years, until 1929. Photo State Historical Society of Missouri.

Quantrill's Raiders were a loosely organized force of pro-Confederate Partisan rangers, "bushwhackers", who fought in the American Civil War under the leadership of William Clarke Quantrill. The name "Quantrill's Raiders" seems to have been attached to them long after the war, when the veterans would hold reunions.