Details Quantrill's forays into North Texas during the Civil War.

In the fall of 1863, William Clarke Quantrill, the Missouri bushwhacker, took about three hundred of his followers across Indian Territory to Sherman, Texas. In the Lone Star State, the bushwhackers made camp at Mineral Creek. Henry McCulloch, the Confederate commander of the District of Northeast Texas, tried to find a use for the pseudo-rebels, but they failed in rounding up deserters, chasing Indians, and destroying moonshiners. They did manage to ravage the city of Sherman, getting drunk and shooting the tassels off the hat of Grayson County's leading lady, Sophia Butts. They also robbed and killed citizens, including Sophia's husband. Then they began to fight among themselves until Quantrill's command splintered. Texas seemed little changed in the guerrillas' wake, but the atrocities they committed after returning north show that their time near Sherman changed them decisively.

In William Clarke Quantrill, Albert Castel's classic biography, the story of Quantrill and his men comes alive through facts verified from firsthand, original sources. Castel traces Quantrill's rise to power, from Kansas border ruffian and Confederate Army captain to lawless leader of “the most formidable band of revolver fighters the West ever knew.” During the Civil War Quantrill and his men descended on Lawrence, Kansas, and carried out a frightful massacre of the civilian population.

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The Lawrence raid of August 21, 1863, was considered one of the bloodiest events of the Civil War. The actions that brought on the raid are researched and explored in depth here for the very first time. What is discovered is a collusion in a "legacy of lies" that surrounded the stories of the raid.

The Civil War in the Indian Territory proved to be a test of valor and endurance for both sides. Author Steve Cottrell outlines the events that led up to the involvement of this region in the war, the role of the Native Americans who took part in the war, and the effect their participation had on the war's outcome, particularly in this region. For Indians, as in the rest of the country, neighbor was pitted against neighbor, with members of the same tribe often fighting against each other. Cottrell describes in vivid detail the guerilla warfare, surprise attacks, and all-out battles that stained the grassy plains of Oklahoma with blood. In addition, he introduces the reader to the interesting and often colorful leaders of the military-North and South-including the only Indian to attain the rank of general in the war, Confederate general Stand Watie. With outstanding illustrations by Andy Thomas, this story is a tribute to and a revealing portrait of those who fought and the important role they played in this era of our country's history.

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 (1837–1865) 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 him—Frank 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.

When one thinks of William Quantrill, Bloody Bill Anderson, and men like the James and Younger Brothers, they may automatically think of Missouri and Kansas. But Quantrill's Raiders are a fascinating part of Grayson County and North Texas history as well. This book will explore their activities in North Texas, both during, and after the Civil War. This writer's purpose is not to overtly try to take one side over the other, concerning the morality of that war, or those who fought in it. Many original sources will be presented from the time of the war and shortly afterward explaining the times. Both sides will be presented and the humanity of the people involved will be taken into consideration.CONTENTS:Section One - Quantrill's Raiders in North TexasIntroduction Pg 7-10A short introduction and overview of Quantrill's Raiders in North Texas Pages 11 - 20Quantrill's 1861 Trip to North Texas and Grayson County Pg 21-25Quantrill's Raiders in 1862 Pg 25-28Quantrill In 1863 -1864 Pg 29-33Collapse Of Union Jail In Kansas City Pg 34-38Quantrill's Trip to Texas in 1863 In "Noted Guerrillas, or the Warfare of the Border" Pg 38-45Quantrill's Raiders In Grayson County Texas, Good Guys or Bad? Pg 46-54 Tales of a Guerrilla Warrior A defense of Quantrill's men from one of them himself, William H. Gregg Quantrill's Raiders Popularity in North Texas Pg 55-64 Potts Family Gives Quantrill a Thumbs UPQuantrill's Raiders Not A Favorite of Their Commander GEN. McCullochAn Account of the Baxter Springs Massacre from William Gregg Pg 65-67Quantrill's Raiders North of Pottsboro in Fall 1863 Pg 68-81Brogdon Springs, Spout Springs and the Hanging Tree Quantrill Camped at the Springs Description of Quantrill's Camp Lookout THE CIVIL WAR BATTLE THAT HISTORY FORGOT -THE BATTLE FOR TEXAS - THE BATTLE ON THE RED RIVER Pg 82-104General Blunt vs. Quantrill; and Quantrill in Texas Preston Bend's Paul Revere Was a Lady - Sophia Coffee Butts Porter Union General Blunt Continues to Plot Revenge Against Quantrill General Blunt Inserts Spies in Quantrill's Raiders in Texas as Would-Be Assassins Historic Brogdon Cemetery, Civil War Burial Ground Quantrill's Raiders In Sherman Pg 105-126Quantrill's Raiders March from the Indian Territory to Georgetown and Sherman Texas in the Fall and Winter of 1863-64. by O. S. BartonQuantrill Faces His Toughest Challenge - The Women Back Home Quantrill's Raiders Ride Rough Shod In (And Over) Sherman Quantrill's Golden Treasure in Sherman Sherman Merchant (Hall) Plays Host to QuantrillSherman as it Appeared to Quantrill's Men in the 1860sThe Breakup of Quantrill's Raiders Pg 127-185Bill Anderson's Sherman Romance Helps Break up the BandThe Killing of Major Butts of Preston Bend Disintegration of Quantrill's Raiders Demoralization of the Band - Arrest and Escape of Quantrill Jernigan's Thicket And the brush men - McCulloch's and Quantrill's Feud Quantrill's Raiders in Kentucky TownAn Account of The Group's Break -up - William H. Gregg - A Little Dab of History Remembrances of Quantrill's Raiders in North Texas by his MenThe Guerrillas Trips to North Texas and Sherman in Fall 1864 - 1866 by John Edwards and Capt. Harrison Trow William Quantrill, Civil War Horse Whisperer?The Death of Old Charley, Harbinger of Quantrill's Death?Paris, Texas Man Was at the Bedside of Quantrill When He DiedSection Two: Sketches of Quantrill's Raiders Pg 186-369 "Bloody Bill" William T. Anderson Pg 187-202 James Monroe "Jim" Anderson Pg 202-203 Capt Francis Marion "Dave" Poole Pg 204-205 Jesse Woodson James Pg 206-244 Alexander Franklin "Frank" James Pg 245-271 Cole, Bob John & Jim Younger Pg 271-294 Levi Boone "Lee" McMurtry Pg 295-305 Allen Parmer Pg 306-320 James "Jim Crow" Chiles Pg 321-323 Jim Cummins Pg 324-329 The Maupin Brothers Isaiah Kimberlin Francis Marion "Tuck" Hill Myra Maybelle Shirley "Belle" Starr

The explosive sequel to Single Combat. Ted Quantrill is a human weapon. He has been a soldier, a commando, and a hit man for the U.S. government. Tired of killing, he has turned his back on the past. But assassins can't retire . . . they have to be killed. To preserve his life in the rugged Southwest, Quantrill will have to kill again--and the target is an old friend as well-trained as he is.