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[historydailyfrancischappellblack]

HISTORY DAILY: AUGUST 21, 1863

CONFEDERATE GUERILLAS MASSACRED 150 PEOPLE IN LAWRENCE, KANSAS.

Image: An artist's depiction of the destruction of the city of Lawrence, Kansas, and the massacre of its inhabitants by Confederate guerrillas on August 21, 1863. (Wikimedia Commons.)

The vicious guerilla war in Missouri rolls into Kansas. It triggers one of the most shocking acts of violence during the war when 150 men in the abolitionist town of Lawrence are murdered in a raid by Confederate supporters.

The American Civil War looked very different in Kansas and Missouri than in the rest of the country. Significantly few regular armies were operating there; instead, partisan bands attacked civilians and each other. The causes of the conflict in the region dated back to 1854, when the Kansas-Missouri border became ground zero for tension over slavery. While residents of Kansas Territory were trying to decide the issue of slavery, bands from Missouri, a slave state, began attacking abolitionist settlements in the territory. Abolitionists reacted with equal intensity.

When the Civil War began, the long history of loathing between partisans created unmatched violence. In August 1863, General Thomas Ewing, the Union commander along the border, arrested several wives and sisters of members of a notorious band led by William Quantrill. This gang of outlaws had blackened the region, terrorizing and murdering Union sympathizers. On August 14, the building in Kansas City, Missouri, where the women were held captive, collapsed, killing five.

Quantrill gathered 450 men to obtain revenge. The army, which included future western outlaws like the Younger brothers and Frank and Jesse James, headed for Lawrence, Kansas, long known as the center of abolitionism in Kansas. After kidnapping ten farmers to guide them to Lawrence, the gang killed each of them. Quantrill’s men rode into Lawrence, extracted 182 men from their homes, many in front of their families, and killed them outright. They burned nearly 200 buildings in Lawrence, then rode back to Missouri with Union cavalry close behind.

This incident incited the North and led to even more killing by both sides along the Kansas-Missouri border.

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[sataniccapitalist]

American History for Truthdiggers: Lies We Tell Ourselves About the Old West

For Native Americans, the white man's tale of noble settlement of an empty frontier in the second half of the 19th century masked a genocide.

[turtleislandhistory]

May 10, 1865

Union soldiers ambush and mortally wound Confederate raider William Quantrill in Kentucky.

[lorca411]

American History for Truthdiggers: Lies We Tell Ourselves About the Old West

For Native Americans, the white man's tale of noble settlement of an empty frontier in the second half of the 19th century masked a genocide.

[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.

[the19thcenturyfoxfoot]

Really Quantrill?

This guy stole blankets. BLANKETS from other people. And would refuse to give them back. He went off into the woods for a couple days with one of them.

Just imagine him like crying out in the woods with his stolen blankie.

[the19thcenturyfoxfoot]

 Summer 1968 (Vol. 34, No. 2), pages 143 to 149 Transcribed by Tod Roberts; digitized with permission of the Kansas Historical Society. NOTE: The numbers in brackets refer to endnotes for this text.

A FRONTIER ballad emerged in mythological fashion from the smouldering ashes of Lawrence in which William Clarke Quantrill was portrayed as the Robin Hood of the Civil War:

Come all you bold robbers and open your ears, Of Quantrell the Lion heart you quickly shall hear. With his band of bold raiders in double quick time, He came to lay Lawrence low, over the line.

Oh, Quantrell's a fighter, a bold-hearted boy, A brave man or woman he'd never annoy. He'd take from the wealthy and give to the poor For brave men there's never a bolt to his door. [1]

Quantrill's famous or infamous raid upon the sleeping town of Lawrence in the predawn hours of August 21, 1863, has been the subject of endless discourse and debate. As the foregoing ballad suggests there were those who regarded Quantrill as a hero and the burning of Lawrence as a good thing. The fact remains, however, that by noon of that fateful day Lawrence resembled a smoking funeral pyre beside the muddy Kaw. Nearly 150 male inhabitants were dead or dying, a large portion of the town's business and residential districts were in ashes and the faces of those who survived the slaughter bore mute testimony to the tragic scene.

[the19thcenturyfoxfoot]

 William Quantrill: *Exists*

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