Three Years with Quantrill: A True Story Told By His Scout

by John McCorkle, O. S. Barton

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Written by a former member of the band, this recollection is often regarded as the most complete firsthand record of the guerrilla fighter William Quantrill's raiders. John McCorkle grew up as a farmer in Missouri with sympathies for the South. He spent a short period with the state's pro-Confederate militia before joining Quantrill's irregulars, a group that moved through the troubled border country between Missouri and Kansas, where it targeted people loyal to the Union. The narrative offers an insider's view of the violence, loyalty and hardship of those years.

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