William Quantrill
Confederate Army officer (1837-1865) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William Clarke Quantrill (July 31, 1837 – June 6, 1865), was a Confederate leader during the American Civil War. Quantrill lead a Confederate unit along the Missouri-Kansas border in the early 1860s. Quantrill was a leader in the Lawrence Massacre in Lawrence, Kansas in 1863. Quantrill was killed in Kentucky in a Union ambush in 1865.[1]
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Birth name | William Clarke Quantrill |
Born | (1837-07-31)July 31, 1837 Canal Dover (now Dover), Ohio |
Died | June 6, 1865(1865-06-06) (aged 27) Louisville, Kentucky |
Buried at | St. John's Catholic Cemetery Louisville, Kentucky |
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Years of service | 1861–1865 |
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