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WV CU QUANTRILL.The Name Recalls a Bloody

S l-r itory.

RAID ON LAWRENCE, KANSAS.

One Hunred and Forty CitizensSlain, Aug. 21, 1863.

The History of Sunrise Massacre, Twenty-

five Years Ago-Jesse and Frank James

and Cole Younger-Portraits of Quan-

trill's Father and Mother-The Dreaded

Guerrilla Chief a Mild Mannered School-

master-Originally an Anti-Slavery Man

and Chosen Comrade of Ol: John

Brown-His Death at Louisville.

Twenty-five years ago this 21st of Augustoccurrei th•eb lering and massaere at Law-reuce, n ., by guerrilla band of Will-iam gantrill.

Th name is commonly spelled "Quau-trell btytb hstojians. That is wrong Ihave seen it written in the guerri!la rlhief-taina own han4, "W. C. Quantrili." He

a very.ir hand, too, plain, even,•olt , and delicate as a woman's.

H r•ritteu well, for the fa-.s w•as a school teacher by

ofei his father before him,Thoas . tril, principal pf the public

0sqhoo o Dover, O. Moreover, theele a was a zealous Republican in

oeIo, and btought up his son in the same

CANAL DOVER.

Qugntrill was born.in Canal Dover in 1837.Th6 houoe in which he was born is stillstanding.

aovwn U55 A R L WAS BORN.o0 p 4d Ganal Dover who

remain bis infancy tq the dayI •f, n. 1857, when he was 20

eams schoolmates are there-m0o soliers, and foughtfor the other Canal Dover

t o schoolmatee still in CanalDoyer . tt editor of The Iron

Vay erlrr. boyhood Mr.Sco was much attached to Quantrill. Forte tp•t twenty years he ha been collectingall tq ia oleal evidenoe in regard to theguerrlla that was obtainable froum any

He expects to write the true life ofo school mate. To the rare courtesy of

tt our raders aro indebted for muchof •ormatioin this page

S s as ueatiful a countre townas affords. qr agriculture the soilfbereebouts th rich with iuezliastible fertil-iy.I neyer saw so mapy fat people andb do horses at ode place as there are at

town So.s the picturesquel as river. Py is side, mile forS ith i.s the Ohio anal, pn

whose on says thatOarfieldA _oyhoTd. Up and down

te blonde aired boy thread-of inture greatness.

SWiLLIAM CLARK QUANTRILL.

the mildet annered mansebttled ship or cut a hroat.

The cow 8stoqies about Quantrillwee himself. In Missouri and

.is te w who still remember himttte ce hunter that they are

ready to eat theirowni heads oft ifhpwas not borc atHagerstown, Md.They know it, theysay, because Quan-trill himself said it.

SIt is true, hesaid it. After hehad embraced thecause of the southso zealously, andbecome leader of aguerrilla band for

-VW, tthe Confederacy,. .antrill passed

W.OC QUANThLL himself off as aS" Wsohel ,r, a native of Mar laud. It will

S bteadily seen Why.:l. s ifther and mother were really from

HagBertown and came as newly wedded!bride and groom from that place- to Canal

T'homas . Quantrill opened a humble tinsbop In Canal Dover. He was an energeticALp, and ambitious.

In ourse of time he became a teacher.Thbp at lengtihe was put at the head of theS olio ahoels in Canal Dover. It is a re-

! bs and honorable place in towns of

iiL anitri 1a maiden name was Clark,S last of July, is-l, her oldest,'-;- Wlon •r,.was born. As soon ashe was old he was put to school. hi. own er, a mild, gentlemanly,Sighly respected citizen, he received most ofb eduastioM

T : ll him "WII Quantrill" to this dayia t Dover. He was a diffident, re-.Syouth e would t i drawn into

iabtwilad obliged to himself, butSDot Id•W s clhoice. As grew to man.

mareamar bleas a marksman.,a~ ies. makethat pig squeal," he said

'61*.dNr ; Ike drew up his gun, ands{. iit hole thr h the ear of a

SThe sot was a per-ilagbed as though

tinnsdy isme he ever wasl bieheguU f aytbin approaching

Swi fnd i of the woodsEa M•ed wt rather enjoy

d s in hI s pockets InstarWighgto the busy,

to ned sontimes he re-- Boys, wouldn't

t, l- care ande> ir g he boy

beheep anals one-

ho got ia teacher's certiflcate and taught aschool at Canal Dover. He saved a littlemonle.

Kansas was at that time the scene of theterrible conflict which was to determinewhether she should be slave or free, andthither went William Clark Quantrill.

The neighbors with whom he went man-aged to enter a homestead ostepsibly forhim. He was not yet of age, and could notenter it for himself. The story is not quiteclear, but Quantrill never got the home-stead, and one or the other of the neighborsdid obtain possession of it. This embitteredthe young man.

To revenge himself he took a yoke of oxenbelonging to one of them and hid the ani-mals in the woods. He was arrested forstealing them. From that time dates thebeginning of his irregular, outlawed life.In the ensuing lawsuit, without friends orinfluence, the boy got the worst of it aind be-came embittered thereafter.

He taught in Kansas even so late as 1860,and wrote letters home to his mother inCanal Dover, breathing the most afectionateand gentle spirit.

I have seen some of his letters. They arerather dreamy and poetic in tone. In one ofthem he speaks of t}-.e snow covered land-scape around his schoolhouse. He tells hismother how Kansas is "locked in winter'scold embrace."

The only picture obtainable of him is saidto be an execrable one. There was one pho-torapnh of him in existence. Some one whothought it did not look terrible enough ob-tained it ro.d thickened the lower lip andlengthened the hair and endeavored to makeit the ideal bandit. In thus changing it hedestroyed the likeness.

After his trouble about the homestead,Quantrill seem- to have lost heart, anddrifted into wandering ways. SHe made atrip to Pike's Peak and other places, neverremaining long in one spot.

But the most remarkablefact in his strangelife is his

ASSOCIATION WITH JOHN BROWN.

Of this there is no doubt. Quantrill wasstill a free state man, and looked with horroron the attempt to plant slavery in Kansas.Month after month these two and a fewchosen others made midnight raids acrossthe border into Missouri, stealing slaves awayfrom their masters and sending them intofreedom. The raids were made lilewise onKansas neighbors who held slaves. It is saidtoo that by and by the negroes brought awaywith them master's mules and horses, andthat the value of these was divided amongthose who freed the slave, share and sharealike.

In June, 1860, Quantrill's mother, in CanalDover, received the last letter from her wan-dering boy. In it he declares that he isweary of life in the west, and'that he s com-ing home in September to "settle dowa."The next she heard of him was from thenewspaper stories that turned their readerspale to the lips with horror at the deeds doneby "Will QuantrilL"

At this time there comes a great break inthe life of the youth. Some terrible eventmust have happened that changed himthrough and through and made him hence-forth the exact opposite of all he had been.That idea strikes one forcibly on hearing hisstory. It is also the opinion of Mr. Scott;hisold schoolmate, who has tried vainly to as-certain what it was that changed hii.

In his raiding days, at the head of hisguerrilla band, Quantrill used to narrate astory of how he happened to join the southand form his band. le said that once in thewoods hunting with his brothey he left thebrother alone in the camp and went out tolook for game. Hearing shots he returnedquickly and found that the jayhawkers hadkilled his brother, and he then vowed ven-geance, etc.

The story is false. A companion of Quan-trill's was killed in that way by Indians insome of his wanderings. That is the onlyfoundation for the pretty romance. He

never Lac; a brother with him during hisraids. His brothers were both in CanalDover.

DARK TREACHERY.

His entrance into the guerrilla field wasmarked by an act of trre chery that has neverbeen excelled. He and three Confederateshad planned tomake a midnightraid on Morgan L.Walker, a richfarmer in Jack-son county, Mo.They meant o stealslaves and otherproperty.Quantri went

ahead of the bandto reconnoiter. Heentered Walker'shouse, was hospita-b 1 y entertainedand ate supper.Whether this QUANsTrILL'S FATfEiR.kindness turnedhim from his purpose or whether he had al-ready made up his mind to betray his com-rades, does not appear. But here it was thatthe turn in Quantrill's career came.

Instead of returning to his concealed com-rades and carrying out the raid as plannedQuantrill revealed the whole plot to Walkerand his son, and conducted them to the spotwhere his companions lay in ambush.Armed to the teeth Morgan Walker and hisson, Andrew J., crept upon the raiders. TheWalkers opened fire. One of the rairers waskilled. The other two escaped for the time,one being desperately wounded.

The unhurt one would not desert his com-rade, but managed to drag him over fencesand felds through the darkness to a place oftdinporary concealment. They were trackedby the trail of blood that followed them fora part of the way. Then the trail was lost.Next day a party scoured that region hunt-ing for the robbers. They lay quiet, how-ever, and undiscovered, till hunger, a flerperpursuer than man, found thuim bat. Theunwounded man saw a negro in the fieldsnear by, and asked for food and water. In-stead of bringing them the black z guidedthe pursuers to the spot. "'id Ah lthem?" "The two men were buried there,"said the narrator of the tale, in a quiet voice.

Afterwards Quantrill organized his bandand Morgan Walker's son oined him. ByDecember, 1860, Quantrill was at the head ofa powerful guerrilla band, onthe side of thesouth. When the war broke out hi. namewas already a terror to free state Kansas.He had been chased out of the town of Law-rence by the sherif. He dodged the officerbyrunning into a blacksmith shop, then outthrough its back door, and escaped. Theysay he -as in the regular Confederate armya -few months. But what made him trndsuddenlyfrom the side of the Union to thatofat the Confederacy? That is a question noman can answer, or eyen murmnis a solutionto Some have believed hbe ada bitter quar-rel with old John Bmrwn, which drove himtthte sotahern iede. ut nobody knows.

Hismost Iitiate frlendsanover what 'as to do rrt. Henever told'1his

mnsp ,old resave orders to

thbi bae g ib j alh ran hor. 'TI'ear 4 4t i -. s w i ols ongo rl& w gal heik;~r hreir* were *1

His band were not armed with guns, butpistols, for short range. They were all un-erring marksmen. They would ride at fullgallop into a crowd of men, diadsarge theirtevolvers right gnd left, theps wheel theirhorses and b"e off and away like the wind,leaving those in whose midst they had ap-peared dead, dying and affrighted.

Each wean of them carried four to six re-volvers, six-shooters, in his belt, and some-times two more in his saddle. They couldaim and fire at a gallop, thus sending twenty-four to thirty-six shots home in the space ofa breath.

In its prime, Quantrill's gang numberednot less than 300 men. They were nearly all

young, and ad-mirably mounted.The first growth oftimber in M1issourialong the Kansasborder had beencut away. The 'second growthformed an im-penetrable thicket,called the chapar-ral. Ip the midstof this Quantrilland his men con-cealed themselves.They had pathswhich none but

QUANT~ILL'S OT]ER.S themselves knew.

They knew the country like wild Indians,every cross path and hill and stream in it.For three years Quantrill and his band defiedthe whole pdwer of the government in thatquarter. United States soldiers were in pur-suit of them constantly, but never foundthem. Now here, now there they alwayseluded by hard riding and snipegir knowl-edge of the country the pursuing force.

"KATE CLARK."

In the first part of his career Quantrill wasfrequently adcompanied by a female com-panion. She claimed to be married to him,and called herself Kate Clark. She wassplendidly mounted, and was a daring rider.Sensational stories, most of whinec ate false,are told of her gorgeous attife, skillfulshooting and various exploits. The amountof truth seems to be this: There was such agirl, no more than 16 or 17 years old, whowas Quantrill's companion for some time iithe early years of the war. She seems tohave been the only woman of any age, ex-cept his mother, that the guerrila ever hadany liking for. After Quantrill's deathS•ate Clark went to Texas, where she still is.

"WE ALL DID IT."

Quantrill and his men were a product ofthe times. $9 was John Brown. And forthe matter of it one side was nearly as bad asthe other.

"You }n the east have no ilea of the waras waged on the Kansas and Missouri bor-der," a free state man told me. "You neverwill have. America cannot aford to let thetrue story of it be writteq. For three yearsthere the war was fought under the blackflag. It's true; for we all did it.

"Missouri Union men on the border wereobliged to flee for their lives into Kansas.Southern sympathizers in Kansas joined theConfederate army or some of the numerousguerrilla bands."

Kansas.

THE BOBDEB."The Union men did the same on their

side, and no quarter was given or asked."This will show you what it was like: I

was in Kansas attending to some businessthere. To our offece came one day an oldmvan, who entrusted ma with some transac-tions involving many thousand dollars.

"He told me not one word about himself,but by close questioning I found he was a• murian who had fled to Kansas. He was

vef wealthy, and had had a magnificentplantation which he was fotoed to leave.

"By questioning further I found he had ason-in-law, a Union man, who was still inMissouri" 'W does henot come away to9p'"'We, he can't get away; he's got some-

thing to do.'"' 'Did he try?"'Yes he tried'' nd what happened'"'W4 he and his sn tried to bring somne.

fine stock off with them. His neighborswere secessionists.'' ' they try tq hinder him?"" FW, yes; they followed 1im, and they

killed his son and took the stock away fromhim.'

" 'What did he do then?" 'My son-in-law, he's got aneye as keen as

a nigger, as w9 seajln Missouri. When his_son was killed ? dodged t one side and

athcbed to se who did it. While the mentook his horses he counted them and recog-nised every one. There were twenty-five.'

"Each time the old mn~ dropped intosilence, and each time the Kansas man wasobliged to draw him out with questions.

"'I had to pmpD it all out of him,' said theKansas man. 'Fansed him if his son-in-lawcame on through to Kansas uiter his neigh-bors diaappea '..'

"'Well no, he couldn't come then, youknow. le hlad omething'to do fust.'" 'What?'"'1e had to get even with them border

' hut how"'s had to kill them, you know.'"' ' .Il of them?"'Well, yes. He just hid himself and

hung around there and watched when heood pick them off.'' 'aas he shot them yet?"'Not al&lof them.'"'How manyf"'I have not heard from him in six

months. Then he bad picked off nineteen,and there were six eft yet.'

" 'Do you mesn to say-that story istruel' Iasked the Kansas msn.

"'lt is as true as that I as here this min-ute.' ,.

THE t LAWRENCE.Amona Y as those described the

soft sachoolmaster developedinto Once he tookfrom a meorstood them

along the shot them dead.Whyshsen for the visita-

tlon -On that point Quantrillsrtearve. It is eon.

3- he had a g•ageb)re le had beebjfei,vbeae u. - heeriS had'

ytiN * Tho. w

many regular Confederate soldters withQuantrill on that raid.

The survivors of Quantrill's ban 'recentlyheld a reunion atBlue Springs, 31o.The mother of theguerrilla chief

.journeyed fro mCanal Dover tomeet them. She -

hoped to hear fromtheir lips that herson was not asblack as lie ispainted. Many ofthe old band arerespectable, wellto do citizeus now.So n e, however, GEN. THO3MAS EWIG.continued a careerof murder and robbery after the war closed,and met either a violent death or landed in

'one or another of various state prisons.The respectable survivors of the band are

unanimous on one point-they were neitherrobbers nor murderers in the beginning, not,indeed, till Gen. Halleck issued from Wash-ington an order proclaiming Quantrill andhis men outlaws in March, 1S36. They raisetheir hands toward heaven and swear by allthat is sacred that this is true.

After Halleck's proclamation Quantrill ob-tained a copy of it ant read it to his men."Now, boys, you hear," he said. "Those ofyou who wish ca:n quit and go home. Thosewho stay will know what to expect."

Some of the band did thereupon leave, it issaid. Quantrill further took a copy of theproclamation and wrote upon it these words:"For every rman of mine you kill I will killten of yours." Then hlie sent the paper toGen. Thomas Ewing, commander of themili-tary district of Kansas.

From that time it was a war of extermina-tion. Quantrill, however, did occasionallyspare a life, and sometimes restored prop-erty when women begged for it. Thoughnot especially chivalrous, he did not harmwomen. Indeed, he was far more mercifulthan many of the fierce borderers thatgathered around him, and this was sometimesthe cause of quarrels.

Gen. Ewing was ill provided with troopsto meet the roaming guerrilla companies. Hedid the best he could, scattering squads ofsoldiers among localities where they couldkeep watch. Especially they were orderedto have an eye on Qilantrill's band. De-tachments were statl,:eed along the Missouriborder, Let ween that .inl Kansas for overfifty miles a. uitth of Kansas City.The provost marshal of Kansas City, Mo.,

was at that time a modest military man, byname Preston B. Plumb, by tsile major. Heis now the distinguished United States sena-tor from Kansas.

The Kaw river etmpties iat, the Missourifrom the west, just at Kans::.; C'ity. Fiftymiles west of Kansas City, ,in the south sideof the Ka;w, is the townl of Lawrence. Itnow contains about 10,000 ilnhabitants. Thenthere were only a few people in thi town.

The able bodied men ci.'ere nearly all awayin the Uriion armiy.

On th.- night of Aug. 30, I5;:t, Maj. Plumbcame in late to his I, adqnlarters. Gen.Ewing was ait Lcav-c,nw..rth, twenty-fivemiles north of Kansas City. MIaj. Plhmil,was very weary. lie was also ill. He re-tired at once. It was 11 o'clock. In a secc-ond story room of the headquarters a singlelight yet burned. It shone through a win-dow facing the street. An attendant of theoffice sat by the light, reading a newspaper.

Suddenly there was a clatter of horses'hoofs up.the street. They paused under thewindow where the solitary light burned. Avoice below shouted faintly:

'Halloo! Is this the provost marshal'soffice?" said the voice.

"It is. What's wantede""I am the bearer of dispatches from Capt.

Pike. He sent me to say that Quantrillcrossed into Kansas with 300 men this even-ing at 6 o'clock, forty miles below here, andthey were heading northwest. It was averbal message."

Then the solitary horesnan went awayagain. He had ridden sixty miles since 6o'clock.

The frightful import of this informationdawned on the newspaper reader to the full.Quantrill in Kansas with 300 men, and ridingnorthwest. It meant massacre, fire andplunder to some defenseless town.

In five minutes lights were flashing to andfro in all the windows of the provost mar-sbai's office. Soldiers were arming, and Maj.Plumb, ill and exhausted as he was, was upand preparing to lead them. Horses weresaddled swiftly in the darkness.

Between 12 and 1 o'clock Maj. Plumb andfifty mounted men were riding out into thedarkness, they knew not just where. Fiftysoldiers were all there were at headquartersat that time. He gathered up other solaierson the way, at Westport. Gen. Ewing sayshe had as many as 500 men when be was atlength fairly on the way.

They Eode all night as fast as their horsescould carry them. Twenty-five miles fromKansas City they had word that Quantrillhad passed through Gardner at midnight andwas riding toward Lawrence. They thenhad their bearings. Lawrence was thedoomed town. They spurred on fast andhard.

In the morning, soon after daylight, theyreached Lawrence, a mass of smoking ruins.Quantrill had done his work already. Hehad done it so thoroughly that only one or twohouses escaped. Quantrill himself spared onehouse, Stone's hotel. It is still to be seen inthe rebuilt city. Its proprietor had doneQuantrill some favor in former times, andhis house was saved from the universal ruin.Quantrlil put into this building some twentypersons and saved their lives.

One hundred and forty people had beenmassacred in cold blood, and twenty-fourothers wounded. Women and little childrenhad been spared. A hundred and eightyfive houses had been burned, and the raiderscarried off all the plunder they could loadupon their horses and themselves--moneyand other valuables. In front of one housethe mistress came out and stood before theguerrillas. She was a plucky determinedwoman. She begged with all the eloquenceshe was master of that her house be spared.It was in vain. The rough raiders bade hergo out of the way, for her house would be inflames in five minutes.names in nve iinnues.

STONE'S HOTEL, LAWRENCE, KAN.

"Then let me take my carpet out of itfrst," begged the lady.

"You may do that," said the raiders, "butbe quick about it."

She went into the house, rolled her carpetup and tugged it out to a place of safety.She watched beside that precious carpet tillthe raiders were out of sight. Her home,meanwhile, melted into ashes beforebereyes.But she had her caqet silL When the

guerrillas were well out of bearing sheo unrolled the carpet. It was precious indeed,for it had concealed her husband. He, withtwo or three others who had managed to hidethenLseives in time and those Quantrillplaced in Stone's hotel, were allthe men who survived that Inurder.'here were notenough of themleft to bury thedead who lay allabout them. Itwas the most piti-ful sight ever seenon this continentoutside of an In-dian massacre,which it resembled.

A gentleman hois now a leadingmerchant in Law-rence hid in the up-stairs of his house. JESSE JAMES.He escaped thesearch made by the guerrillas. His wifebegged them not to fire to fire the house. ' heywere deaf to her entreaties, and kindled theflames. They left temporarily. The ladc>extinguished the fire. A raider returnedand relighted it, and again went away. Thewoman put the fire out. The third time theman Larkin Skaggs came and set the houseon fire, and yet the third time the noble wifeextinguished it.

By that time Larkin Skaggs began to feelthe effects of the Lawrence free whisky hehad been imbi ing, and was too intoxicatedto try to burn the house any more. A littlelater he himself was killed and the house wasspared. Thus this wife, too, saved her hus-band's life. Larkin Skaggs was the only oneof the 300 guerrillas who lost his life in Law-rence, and that happened from his intoxica-tion.

One man escaped in the strangest of ways,by a stumble. He tried to run across 'theroad and reach a clump of bushes. In thisattempt he struck his foot and fell proneupon his face in the gutter. A mountedguerrilla was after him, full tilt, pistol raised.The doomed man felt something beneath himas hlie lay. It was a loaded carbine, cockedready for use. In that desperate moment heseized it and aimed it at his pursuer. Theguerrilla, seeing the weapon, came no nearer,but wheeled instantly and galloped off.

Men took refuge in wells, cisterns, cellarsand anywhere else under ground, that inand anywhere else Utnder ground, that 111in

their wild panicwas suggestedr t,,thein. Abtoveground there wasno safety. Aftertho raiders haddone their workand passed on, afew haggard Ilencrept out of theirhiding places. hia well, some tilmeafter, four 'crles-l-were found, thebodies of fourprominent citizensof Lawrence.

FRANK JAMES. In their despairand terror they

had climbed down into the well to escape the,,nerrillas, and had bgen suffocated.

The stories of atrocities committed on wo-men and children by the band are not true,according to the best information. Quan-trill finished his bloody work quickly androde away.

He started southward, only pausing in hisway to burn the farm houses along the rou te.

It has been said in extenuation of Quan-trill's raid on Lawrence that it was in retalia-tion for what Col. Jennison, the jayhawker,had done in western Missouri. The Kansasfree state men were called "jayhawkers."The Missourians who sought to implantslavery in Kansas by blood and violencewere named "border rufians," and it was be-tween these two parties that the wai of ex-termination was waged.

PURSUIT.

Maj. Plumb's party reached Lawrence onlyin time to see Quantrill's rear guard disap-pearing southward. The guerrillas were re-turning to Missouri, to their impenetrablefastnesses in the chaparral. Quantrill hadprovided himself with fresh horses at Law-rence. Those of Plumb's men were exhaustedby the hard riding since midnight. Therewas little hope of overtaking the band.

Maj. Plumb pushed on, nevertheless. Dur-ing the forenoon he overtook the forces ofCapts. Coleman and Pike, who had startedin pursuit of Quantrill from the stationaloing the border.

C'.pt. Coleman, from Little Santa Fe sta-tion, received the word, and without a mo-meut's delay gathered his slender forces andwent to Aubrey. The two captains there,with 200 men altogether, set in for the chaseof Quantrill at midnight Aug. 21. Gen."Jim" Lane, then United States senatorfrom Kansas, hastily gathered 100 citizenvolunteers and joined the pursuit.

But Quantrill showed the qualifications ofa general on his retreat. The rear of hiscommand was his best guarded point. Hekept here 100 of his most thoroughly trainedand reliable men. They were mouhted uponthe freshest, strongest horses. When theUnion forces came near this 100 men wouldhalt and form in line of battle, as if about toengage in fight. The Union troops wouldthen hasten forward anl form. Then Quan-trill's rear guard would discharge a folleyinto their forces, wheel, and ride swiftlyaway. So they managed to detain andworry the pursuers, while the band itselfwas drawing nearer and nearer to theborder.

These tactics of Q~antril gave opportunityto the tired out membeis of his party to taketurns in resting.Their physical en-durance had beentaxed to man's it-most. They hadridden not ies thanseventy miles thenight before to per-form their bloodywork. After itsclose there was nopause or rest, butthey must ridewith all their mightto escape to the MAJ. PLUMB.Missouri border.Besides the forces already mentioned, Lieut.Col. Clark, of the Ninth Kansas, was afterQuantrill with another troop of several com-panies, hastily gathered. He was in com-mand of the Union border stations south ofthe Little Santa Fe. He received news fromCapt. Coleman of the raid at 3 o'clock in themorning of Aug. 21X Gathering what menhe could, he found Quantrill's trail and fol-lowed it for a time. Then he suddenly leftit and turned southwards to Paola, Kean. Hehoped to intercept Quantrill at Bull Creekford, near Paola, on his return to Missouri,and force him to give battle. CoL Clarkreached the ford ahead of Quantrill. Thusthe guerrilla had behind him, close at hisheels, over 700 pursuers under Plumb, Pike,Coleman and Senator Lane, while ahead ofhim, waiting or him at Bull Creek ford, wasLieut CoL Clark, with over a hundred moresoldiers and citisens. It seemed impossiblefo himoto escapa

Yet elh was the oanLOumate skldi of the

guerrilla that he extricated himself from thbjtrap wiih the loss of lets than 10 men, 71itold. IIis pursuers, tdo, numbered nearly1,000 men, while he had only 300.

The weary chase over the prairiu lasted till8 o'clock and dark. Then Quantrill waswithin four miles of Bull Creek ford. Buthe did not come on to the ford. Just after Idark he formed a line of battle, as before,and waited till his pursuers came near. Thens•fddenly his trodp broke rank and turnedabout squarely to the north. Scattering.thisway and that in the darkness, knowinj"thecountry as they did, they easily broke trailand dodged the whole Ulnion force, both Vb-foro anal behind them. There was a skirmishat the ford, but nu damage was done. At

this point the Union soldiers gave up thechase for the time, and stopped for rest andfood at Paola. The trail had been lost in thedarkness.

Pursuit was not renewed till daybreak Aug.Detached companies of Union soldiers

from the various stations, besides those al-ready mentioned, were hunting the raidersi: all directions.

Lieut. Col. Clark started upou the refoundtrail at daybreak. A detachment of 130men under Maj. Phillips and 120 under Maj.Thatcher found the trail early, Aug. 22, andfollowed it immediately behind Coleman andClark.

What ct Quantrill? After eluding thetroops at Paola, he went five miles further,and then, within almost hearing distance ofthe Union pickets, he stopped to rest, forcedto ih. by exhaustion.

After briefly stopping he pushed on to theborder. At noon, Aug. 22, he reached thetimildie fork of Grand river ini Missouri, aimbtred r e g ion .s•.,

wheztr hi was comn-paratively safe.There he scatteredhis band. and theytook to the brush.

Licut. Col. La-tear was at .thahead of a n otherfl y ing party of,• :a n t r i l l 's t; t; -aiu

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elrs. He h;-I_ "tA)iie . A.' 2 3,Col. L:.::-,,r reallyd i d encounter a t

portion of theh-c: li, and had se•- COLE YOUNGER.oral Idesultorytight3 with them. A number of stragglingguerrillas were killed, and some of the horsesthey had taken were recaptured.

fHE CONFEDERATE CAPTAIN

At one p ,lt in the flight, half a dozen ofQula:ntrrl' nien, worn out, had lain down ina er:flild to re.t. They were d(licovered.\Vitlh th:: c was a regular Confederate cap-l,:; in u:iforni, a man of fine presence and

r,,anners. He knew the stern ruleof warfarei- that region-death on sight. He said toShe officer of the capturing party:"I suppose nothing I can say for myself

will do any good. The truth is, though, Icame along with this band in the interests ofl.unm:nity. I am a regular Confederates)ldior on furlough. I feared for the atro-cities these guerrillas might commit. Iiuiued l them in theo hope I might preventthese somewhat. But I suppose that won'thelp me any now.'"No," replied the Union soldler; "I can't

do anything for you.""I didn't think you could,' said the Con-

federate captain; "but I have this last requestto make. Here is my watch and my card.P'romi -. r me that if you ever can you willcc-nd these to my wife.""'I promise," answered the Union captain.A few minutes later the Federal soldiers

passedi on, leaving six dead men in the cornfield.

GEN. EWING'S FAMOUS ORDER.

The Quantrill raid took place Aug. 21,18563. On the 25th of August Gen. ThomasEwing issued an order depopulating all thatpart of Missouri that bordered on Kansas.Those who proved their loyalty were allowedto go into Kansas or to any of the militarystations, the others were to go any place, nomatter where, so they only moved out of thedIstrict. To force the execution of this orderGen. Ewing sent out military detachments todestroy property. Grain and hay in thefields and in barns were set fire to, and allthat would provide food for man or beastwas destroyed. When near enough to themilitary stations the live stock, grain andhay were removed thither; when not, theywere destroyed.

So thoroughly was the order carried outthat in the autumn of 1863 one could ridedown through the Missouri border countiesfifty miles without meeting a living creature,even a house cat. Blacksmith tools lay rust-ing in the shop, the child's cradle stood emptybeside the house door, where the mother hadleft it in her flight.

QUANTRILL'S DEATH.

At the beginning of 1865 Quantrill said tohis mfen: "Boys, the war is ended; the southhas lost. Do the best you can."

He sent the married men to their homes,took most of the single ones with him, andorganized a smaller band. With these hecontinued for some time longer his life ofroving and depredation. With him wereJesse and Frank James, the train robberp,and Cole Younger. These received their ed-ucation under Quantrill. Cole Younger isnow in the Minnesota penitentiary. FrankJames is in mercantile business at Dallas,Tex., and is said to be lionized by the peoplethere.

At the beginning of 1865 Quantrill and hisreduced band started north and east. Theyworked their way across the Mississippi riverabove Memphis, entered Tennessee and finallyreached Ktentucky. It is believed that Quan-trill was trying to reach Lee at Richmondand surrender with him.

In Kentucky he called himself Capt. Clark,and his men wore the Federal uniform. Buttheir identity was discovered. May 10, 1865,Col. Terrell, at the head of some Uniom men,surprised the party at Wakefield's' barn. inSpencer county, Ky. In trying to escapetwo of the band were killed and Quantrillwas mortally wounded.

He died in the United States Military hos-pital at Louisville, Ky., June 6, 1865. He isburied in the Roman Catholic cemetery ofSt. John's church, Louisville.

ELIzA ARCHARD.

Note by W. WV. Scott, of Canal Dover, O.[You may rely upon the pictures as accurate.

Quantrill saved Stone's hotel for this reason: Be-fore the war there was much ill feeling bgtweenthe factions, and Quantrill was indicted by thegrand jury at Lawrence. Mr. Stone gave uiinwarning, and he escaped to Missduii beforeSheriff Walker could find him. For tireQuantrill put a guard over Stone's hotel,conducted thither some twenty ot thirty stragers who happened to be In Lawrence;eut lr.Stone was killed by a member of the bad. t•sdaughter had a fine ring which she refused togive up, and a guerrilla wrejpched it fropn herfinger. Her father knockqd the fellow down, andwas immediately shot dead. ' Quantrill onlylearned this during the retreat. This was toldmo in May, by Quantrill's men at Blue Sp~nsMo. I was, as you relate, choolmateofQuantrill, and found and identified his grave, wilsoon publish a minute history of lllle anpdeath, with proofs which put the ft beyOndquaugtou.-W. W. S.]d~.rn~mar~c ~ut~~r

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