OHIO STATEWIDE FILES OH-FOOTSTEPS Mailing List Issue 109 *********************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 00 : Issue 109 Today's Topics: #1 Quantrill [Harry Liggett ] Administrivia: To unsubscribe from OH-FOOTSTEPS-D, send a message to OH-FOOTSTEPS-D-request@rootsweb.com that contains in the body of the message the command unsubscribe and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. ______________________________ ------------------------------ X-Message: #1 Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 08:54:57 -0500 From: Harry Liggett To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.20000323085339.00967190@mail.ald.net> Subject: Quantrill Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Native of Canal Dover Made Infamous Raid Century Ago By SUSAN MARTIN It was 100 years ago this week that William Clarke Quantrill, a native of Dover, paid off his grudge against Lawrence, Kan., in blood and fire. Quantrill, whose band of guerrillas became infamous with raids on various towns in Kansas during the Civil War era, was born in Dover (called Canal Dover at that time), on July 31 1837. He was the son of Thomas Henry and Caroline Cornelia Clarke Quantrill. His father managed a tin shop in Dover and later became superintendent of public schools, a job he held until his death. The oldest of eight children, Quantrill was civil and quiet as a boy. He was a good shot with the rifle and liked to hunt and fish. At the age of 16, Quantrill became a school teacher in one of the lower grades of his father's schools. Left At 17 He left Dover to study at Fort Wayne, Ind.., .a year later. He sudied Latin and the higher mathematics, and returned, to Dover in 1858. The next spring, he left for Kansas with sime settlers, where he filed a. claim on some land. Being too restless for a farmer's life, he traveled with an army provision train bound for Utah. He seems to have used the name of Charley Hart as a gambler there. He again taught school in 1859_60 in Kansas. He once more went by the name of Charley Hart near Lawrence, Kans., where: he had to flee under charges of horse stealing. When the Civil War broke out, Quantrill was put in command of 100 men, including the notorious James brothers. He and his band pillaged and burned Union towns of Kansas. and Missouri, which were both free states. His permanent quarters and hideout were in Jackson County Mo. Given Captain's Rank Given the rank of captain in the confederacy, Quantrill and h is 450 men are especially remembered for their raid on Lawrence, Kan.on Aug. 21, 1863. About 150 citizens of Lawrence were killed. by the straight_shooting horsemen. Included in t he dead were 12 unarmed Union recruits, all teen_ agers. Quantrill and. his men hit t he town at dawn, and the sleepy citizens were defenseless. Out of his 450 men, Quantrill lost only one in the raid. He made a quick getaway to Missouri, dodging a Union cavalry troop and a few of the citizens out for revenge. Dissension finally arose among his men, and they broke up into smaller bands. Early in 1865, he and his 33 men entered Kentucky, robbing, foraging and occasionally killing. . In May, a small Union force surprised the guerrillas near Taylorsville in Spencer County. Quantrill was.fatally wounded and died nearly a month'later at a hospital in Louisville on June 6, 1865. He .was buried in a Catholic cemetery. [The Evenng Chronicle, Uhrichsville, Tuscarawas County, OH ,Saturday, August 24, 1963] -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V00 Issue #109 *******************************************