QUANTRILL AND THE BORDER WARS by CONNELLEY, William Elsey - 1910

Cedar Rapids IA: The Torch Press, 1910. First Edition. Large 8vo, pp. 542. Bookplate, front hinge loose, untrimmed. Bound in little soiled red cloth. Advertising brochure laid in. Adams Six Guns #479, Howes C-695b, Nevins II, p. 146. This is "an account of those events of the Border Wars in which Quantrill and his men were the leading characters on the Confederate side." Included in Quantrill's band were Frank and Jesse James, Bill and Cole Younger, Bloody Bill Anderson, etc. In 1862, Quantrill and his gang were declared outlaws by Union officials. Quantrill helped Confederate troops capture Independence, Missouri in August, 1862. A year later Quantrill, with 300 men plus another 150 men who were loosely allied to him descended on Lawrence, Kansas, burning much of the city down and killing nearly 150 citizens. A few weeks later, after defeating a small group of Federal soldiers at Baxter Springs, Kansas, Quantrill put the Federal prisoners to death. Quantrill was finally mortally wounded in 1865 by Federal troops during a raid into Kentucky in which he led only 33 men.