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John McCorkle was a scout for the notorious William Quantrill, a man whose group of brigands spent their time kidnapping runaway slaves in exchange for reward money in the years before the civil war. McCorkle served briefly in the Missouri State Guard before being captured, swearing an oath of allegiance to the Unionists, and soon after breaking it to join Quantrill’s men. Fighting along the Missouri-Kansas borderland, preying on Unionist sympathisers, this account provides insight into a western theatre of a very different nature than the usual accounts following the exploits of Ulysses S. Grant and his army. McCorkle attempts to rehabilitate the memory of Quantrill, who he greatly respected, and the actions of the confederate guerrillas more generally. He was at pains to show how federal atrocities led him into this fight and how, by contrast, the confederates operated within a framework of decency and morality. Quantrill was best known for the massacre at Lawrence, Kansas in 1863, in which over 180 civilians were killed. McCorkle recounts this raid and places the blame for it firmly on the federal forces, who provoked retaliation through their murder of a number of women related

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Author

John McCorkle, O. S. Barton

Publisher

Buffalo-Head Press

Published

1966

Language

EN

ISBN

9780838311073

Category

nonfiction