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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
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Biography, Guerrillas, History, Soldiers, Underground movements, United States Civil War, 1861-1865, West (U.S.) Civil War, 1861-1865, Quantrill, William Clarke, 1837-1865., Quantrill, william clarke, 1837-1865, United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, underground movements, West (u.s.), historyPlaces
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Civil War, 1861-1865Showing 3 featured editions. View all 3 editions?
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Devil Knows How to Ride: The True Story of William Clark Quantrill and His Confederate Raiders
2009, Hachette Books
in English
0786751207 9780786751204
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The devil knows how to ride: the true story of William Clarke Quantrill and his Confederate raiders
1998, Da Capo Press
in English
- 1st Da Capo Press ed.
030680865X 9780306808654
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The devil knows how to ride: the true story of William Clarke Quantrill and his Confederate raiders
1996, Random House
in English
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0679424555 9780679424550
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [493]-505) and index.
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