Quantrill and His Civil War Guerrillas

Carl W. Breihan

• Publisher: Papamoa Press
• Year: 2019
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781789122978
• Subtopic: 19th Century History
• Index: History

Originally published in 1959, Carl W. Breihan's Quantrill and His Civil War Guerrillas is a concise, well-researched biography of one of the famous Civil War figures, William Clarke Quantrill (1837-1865). The action takes place mostly around the Kansas-Missouri border, dating from before the Civil War to just afterward.
William Clarke Quantrill was a Confederate guerrilla leader during the American Civil War. Having had a knockabout youth resulting in becoming a school teacher, Quantrill joined a group of bandits who roamed the Missouri and Kansas countryside apprehending escaped slaves. Later on this group became Confederate soldiers, who were referred to as "Quantrill's Raiders". This group was a pro-Confederate partisan ranger outfit best known for their often brutal guerrilla tactics, which made use of effective Native American field skills. Quantrill's group included the young Jesse James (1847-1882) and his older brother Frank James (1843-1915), and portraits of both infamous outlaws are included in this engaging biography.

Roster of Guerrillas

After long and tedious research the writer is able to append to this history a verified and complete list of the names of the men who, at one time or another, rode with Quantrill.

A

Akers, Sylvester

Anderson, James (Killed in Austin, Texas, after the war)

Anderson, William (Killed at Orrick, Missouri, in 1864)

Archie, Hugh Archie, William Asbury, A. E.

B

Baker, John (Orderly sergeant)

Barker, John

Barnhill, John

Basham, Sol

Basham, William (Surrendered at Smiley, Kentucky)

Berry, Dick

Berry, Ike

Bishop, John

Bledsoe, William (Killed on retreat at Lawrence)

Blunt, Andy (Wounded, April 16, 1862)

Blythe, Christian name unknown

Bochman, Charley

Brady, Matt (Captured)

Brady, Christian name unknown

Brinker, Jim

Broomfield, Ben

Bunch, Oliver

Burns, Dick (Hanged, May 27, 1867)

Burton, Pete (Killed at Lamar, Missouri, November 5, 1862)

C

Campbell, Doc

Carr, Bill (Killed April 16, 1862)

Carter, Harrison

Castle, Theodore

Chatman, John

Chiles, Bill

Chiles, James Crow (Killed by a citizen at Independence)

Chiles, Kit

Clarke, Jerome H. (Sue Mundy) (Hanged at Louisville, Kentucky)

Clarke, Sam C.

Clayton, George

Clifton, Sam

Clements, Arch (Killed at Lexington, Missouri, December, 1866)

Clements, Henry

Commons, Smith

Corum, Al

Corum, James

Corum, John

Crabtree, Joe

Crawford, Riley (Killed in Jackson County, Missouri)

Creth, Creek

Cummins, Jim (Died in Confederate Home, Higginsville, Missouri, around 1928)

Cundhill, Christian name unknown

Cunningham, Abe

D

Dalton, J. Frank (Died, Granbury, Texas, 1951)

Dalton, Kit

Dancer, Jim

De Bonhorst, Paul

De Hart, E. P.

Devers, Alva

Devers, Art

Donohue, Jim (Killed, Lamar, Missouri, 1862)

E

Edmundson, J. F.

Emory, Jeff

Ervin, J. C.

Esters, Josh

Estes, Christian name unknown

Evans, Tom (Surrendered at Smiley, Kentucky)

F

Farretts, John

Flannery, Ike (Killed by Jesse James after the war)

Flannery, John

Flannery, Si

Flournoy, John

Fox, Christian name unknown

Freeman, Will

Frisby, John

Fry, Frank

G

Gaw, Bill (Went to Kentucky with Quantrill)

George, Dave

George, Gabe (Killed at Independence, Missouri, February 1862)...

Table of contents

• Title page
• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• DEDICATION
• Acknowledgment
• Illustrations
• Prelude to the Civil War
• The Quantrill Family
• Quantrill in Kansas
• The Black Flag
• Quantrill at Richmond
• Character Studies
• The Palmyra Butchery
• Battles of Carthage and Wilson’s Creek
• Battle of Lexington
• A Narrow Escape
• Blue Cut Again
• Independence and Lone Jack
• The Sacking of Lawrence
• After Lawrence
• Bloody Bill Anderson
• The Battle of Centralia
• Deaths of Todd and Anderson
• The Last of Quantrill
• Roster of Guerrillas
• REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER