Quantrill raiders

Confederate bushwhacker, American Civil War

Confederate guerrilla William "Bloody Bill" Anderson, ca. 1864. Anderson rode with Quantrill and was considered one of the (if not the)…

JESSE AND FRANK JAMES RARE PHOTO QUANTRILL RAIDERS GUERRILLAS c1861

June 6 1865 William Clarke Quantrill dies of wounds suffered in May...Quantrill was badly wounded in a skirmish with Union forces, and he died on this day in 1865. Since Quantrill's men were guerillas rather than legitimate soldiers, they were denied the general amnesty given to the Confederate army after the war ended. Some, like Frank and Jesse James, took this as an excuse to become criminals and bank robbers. Quantrill was 24 when he died.

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Civil War Virtual Museum | Major Guerrilla Warfare Actions | John Nichols - shown here as a prisoner with leg irons attached to a ball & chain. He was executed at Jefferson City, MO on 30 Oct 1863. Nichols, along with James Johnson became one of the smallest guerrilla bands operating in Northwest MO. They caused so much trouble that Union authorities had at one time issued a "shoot on sight" order against both men.

Civil War Casualty - William Clarke Quantrill (July 31, 1837 – June 6, 1865) was a Confederate guerrilla leader during the American Civil War. After leading a Confederate bushwhacker unit along the Missouri-Kansas border in the early 1860s, which included the infamous raid and sacking of Lawrence, Kansas in 1863, Quantrill eventually ended up in Kentucky where he was mortally wounded in a Union ambush in May 1865, aged 27.

Members of Quantrill's Raiders - Quantrill was badly wounded in a skirmish with Union forces, and he died on this day in 1865. Since Quantrill's men were guerillas rather than legitimate soldiers, they were denied the general amnesty given to the Confederate army after the war ended. Some, like Frank and Jesse James, took this as an excuse to become criminals and bank robbers.

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