This famous memoir by John McCorkle, reissued for the first time, is the best published account by a scout who "rode with Quantrill." John McCorkle was a young Missouri farmer of Southern sympathies. After serving briefly in the pro-Confederate Missouri State Guard, he became a prominent member of William Clarke Quantrill s infamous guerrillas, who took advantage of the turmoil in the Missouri-Kansas borderland to prey on pro-Union people.
McCorkle displayed an unflinchingly violent nature while he participated in raids and engagements including the massacres at Lawrence and Baxter...
This famous memoir by John McCorkle, reissued for the first time, is the best published account by a scout who "rode with Quantrill." John McCorkle...
Three Years with Quantrill is a 13 chapter history written by a Civil War veteran who fought with the war's most famous bushwhacker, William Quantrill. Quantrill and his group, known as Quantrill's Raider, fought irregular guerrilla warfare in Kansas and Missouri for much of the war, and they were so partisan that Quantrill was mortally wounded a month after Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox.
Three Years with Quantrill is a 13 chapter history written by a Civil War veteran who fought with the war's most famous bushwhacker, William Quantrill...
