Chasing Quantrill

Wednesday, March 1, 2017

On Aug. 23, 1863, Col. William C. Quantrill and his band of Confederate guerrillas attacked and destroyed much of Lawrence, Kan. This was one of the, if not the most successful Confederate raids in Kansas during the Civil War. Much has been written about the "sacking of Lawrence," but very little has been published about the pursuit of Quantrill and his band as they returned to Missouri after the raid. The following account of "Chasing Quantrill" has been edited because of its length and was written by Pvt. Albert R. Greene of Company A, 9th Kansas Volunteer Cavalry and was published in Volume XIII of the Kansas Collections on Pages 430 -- 451 in 1913 -- 1914.

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