498        QUANTRILL AND THE BORDER WARS

son county; account of life of written for author, 167; joined Quantrill's band, 221; in skirmish at house of Noah McAlexan-der; Manuscript of; deputy sheriff, 222; in skirmish with Double-day's men, 223; error of as to Perry Hoy and Brady, 224; saved Lieutenant Bandlett, 226; says Quantrill was not a Freemason, 229; version of Bandlett's exchange, 234; stopped at Wyatt farm, 239; at battle at Clark farm, 249; action of at Searancy farm, 258; broke down doors of jail at battle of Independence, 268; commissioned second lieutenant, 269; given warrant for Lieutenant Cope-land's death, 270; spoke for Colonel Chiles to command ambush, 274; attacked wagon-train of Colonel Catherwood; captured it, 276; guerrilla command turned over to, 278; sent by Marmaduke to Missouri to recruit; captured and paroled many prisoners, 281; account of origin of Lawrence Massacre, 308; omits important facts, 312; says Union soldiers not molested at Gardner, 324; says column was put to gallop at Franklin, 328; sent ahead into Lawrence, 335; Manuscript of authority on Lawrence Massacre, 336; came on camp of recruits, 337; saw young man killed as he entered Lawrence, 338; pointed out tents to guerrillas; galloped up Massachusetts street with Quantrill, 340; Major escaped from; portrait of, 341; given twenty men to gather straggling guerrillas; orders of Quantrill to;  gave Jacob Bote suit of

clothes and horse; saw Bledsoe wounded; took him out in hack, 378; found stragglers refractory, 379; drunken guerrilla; ninety-nine one-dollar bills, 380; perhaps killed men in Lawrence; did not give order attributed to him, 384; reply of John Speer to article of, 388; Speer believed he was at his house, 394; ordered by Quantrill to take sixty men and hold the rear, 403; tactics adopted to hold rear, 404; forced to give up command of rear by exhaustion; description of Joab Perry's flight, 406; rode into pond to drink; got drink at well, 409; escape of when guerrillas dispersed, 417; says many guerrillas were killed in pursuit; blames Quantrill, 419; Higbee denounced, 420; says Quantrill knew nothing of fort at Baxter; position of when fort was charged, 424; shot at by negro at fort; narrow escape of, 425; charged on band at Baxter, 429; saw man and woman escape in buggy, 430; helped bury William Bledsoe; afterwards in skirmish near grave, 433; on guard after Cooper's scouts captured; rode forth to meet Mcintosh; battle averted by Koger, 435; says Lawrence Massacre demoralized the guerrillas, 438; circumstances under which he left Quantrill, 444; courage of saved life; Fletch Taylor refused to kill; joined Shelby and not again with guerrillas, 447; information given by about Quantrill's horse Charley, 467; said if Quantrill was Freemason he never made himself known as such, 478.