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QUANTRILL AND THE BORDER WARS

Peabody, 248; fought well but defeated, 249; stand at Sni ford; at house of Eeuben Harris, 250; at house of Job Crabtree; affair at the Lowe house, 251; his brutal treatment of Union Missourians; had to contend mainly with Missourians; not a Prancis Marion but a brutal bushwhacker, 252; trip of to Hannibal; errors of Edwards, 254; operations of in June, 1862; invaded Henry County; sent men with Hays; Federal troops on track of, 255; at Searancy farm; trappings of soaked, 256; battle at, 257; desperate character of battle; bravery and ability of; equipments of captured, 258; at battle of Independence, 259; marched to camp of Hughes, 261; did his part well, 262; Buel stipulated that his men should not be murdered by, 266; entitled to credit for victory, 267; made a Confederate captain; went to Independence for loot; not pleased with "big guns" of Confederacy; orders of to Hallar, 269; not in battle of Lone Jack; camped on Little Blue; Lieut. Copeland murdered by order of, 270; starts to Kansas to kill ten men for Perry Hoy; raids Olathe; killed fourteen men for Perry Hoy, 271; plundered Olathe and killed citizens, 272; proud of his commission; showed it to Eobinson at Olathe; robbed stores, dwellings and citizens at Olathe, 272; pursued by Colonel John T. Burris; at Bone Hill; defeated near Pleasant Hill; pursued by Captain David, 273; sacked and burned Shawneetown;

preposterous nature of excuses for, 274; rendezvous for Texas trip; Hallar left; attacked train, 275; induced to attack garrison at Lamar; failed; burned town, 276; at Fort Smith attached to Shelby, 277; went to Bichmond, 278; coldly received at Bichmond; interview of with Secretary of War, 279; urged Confederacy to raise black flag; men of in battles of Cane Hill, Prairie Grove, Springfield, and Hartville, 280; from Bichmond through Mississippi; disappointment of; band dwindled; comforted by General Price; Price may have commissioned as Colonel, 281; power of diminished; arrives in Missouri in spring of 1863; kidnaps Kate Clarke, 282; did not accomplish so much in 1863 as in previous summer, 283; cared nothing for the North and nothing for the South, 285; hated Kansas, 296; Kansas should be laid waste; self-deception of; murdered many Missourians, 298; lost favor with officers but strong with men, 299; why men joined, 302; what he said about raid on Lawrence, 308; won his captains to the Lawrence Massacre; reasons urged, 309; said to have visited Eudora; origin of raid as described by Edwards, 310; rendezvous fixed by; preparations, 311; men of assembled, 313; march towards the State-line, 314; total force of; enters Kansas, 315; peculiar shirt of men of; captains of at Lawrence, 317; required results in pistol-shooting, 318; in Kansas, 323; route   of   to   Lawrence, 324;