The Devil Knows How to Ride

Weaving together eyewitness accounts, letters, memoirs, newspaper articles, and miltary reports, this biography tells the story of William Clarke Quantrill (1837-1865) and the events that transformed a quiet Ohio teacher from a Unionist family into a pro-slavery Confederate soldier. http://www.dropshippers.co.za/

Brilliantly weaving together eyewitness accounts, letters, memories, newspaper articles, and military reports into a riveting narrative, this definitive biography reveals the personality of William Clarke Quantrill (18371865) and the events that transformed a quiet Ohio schoolteacher from a staunchly Unionist family into a virulent pro-slavery Confederate soldier and the most feared and despised guerrilla chieftain of the Civil War. This groundbreaking work includes the most accurate account ever written of the 1863 Lawrence, Kansas massacre (the greatest atrocity of the Civil War), when Quantrill and 450 raiders torched the Unionist town and executed roughly 200 unarmed, unresisting men and teenage boys. It also details the postwar outlaw careers of those who rode with himFrank and Jesse James, and Cole Younger. No other history so fully penetrates the myth of a cardboard-cutout psychopath to expose Quantrill in all his brutality and human complexity. http://www.dropshippers.co.za/

• Title: The Devil Knows How to Ride
• Subtitle: The True Story of William Clarke Quantril and His Confederate Raiders
• Illustrations note: 34 illustrations, 4 maps
• Imprint name: Da Capo Press Inc
• Table of contents: * Introduction * The War over Kansas Territory, 18541861 * Quantrills Family Background and Early Years * Quantrills Western Travels * The Morgan Walker Raid * Quantrill Becomes a Guerrilla * Ambushes and Reprisals * The Raid on Independence * Prelude to the Lawrence Massacre * The Lawrence Massacre * The Pursuit of Quantrill and the Issuing of Order No. 11 * The Baxter Springs Massacre * The Usurpation of Quantrill * During the Summer and Fall of 1864 * The Death of Quantrill * The Postwar Years * Epilogue: The Bizarre History of Quantrills Remains
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