This topic is in light of Marymog's statement in post #223 in the Communion vs Holy Communion Thread. There she said, concerning Quantrill the Southern Calvaryman:
"I disapprove of respecting a man who has been called one of the psychopathic killers in America...and ordered/participated in the burning, looting and killing of the citizens of Lawrence Kansas"
So, Marymog, you have simply regurgitated the common politically correct and distorted view of Quantrill. First of all I want to address the cause for the burning, killing, and looting of Lawrence.
Taken from (Three Years With Quantrill, A True Story Told by His Scout John McCorkle, O.S Barton, Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1992, p.119-123)
"In September [August], 1863, Captain Bill Anderson and his company joined us. At this time, the outrages committed by the Federal troops,which consisted mostly of Home Guards and Kansas Redlegs and Jayhawkers, beggars description. At this late day,it seems impossible that human beings could have been guilty of such merciless outrages as these men committed. Among the leaders of these bands were Jennison, Jim Lane and a Captain Mead and I will only attempt to give a few of their acts as an illustration of their brutality and to further impress upon the minds of my readers why we acted as we did.
"Captain Mead, with his band went to the home of Mrs. Carter, a widow seventy years of age, and compelled her,at the hour of 12 o'clock at night to ride fourteen miles horseback, facing a bitter snowstorm, to the town of Independence, where she was lodged in jail for feeding rebel soldiers, her two boys being in the Confederate Army.
"....My sister, Mrs. Charity Kerr and my sister-in-law, Mrs.Nannie McCorkle,...went to Kansas City in a wagon...with a load of wheat to exchange it for flour....Anderson Cowgill...reported to the authorities that these two women were rebels and were buying flour to feed the bushwhackers. They were immediately arrested and placed in jail with some other girls, who had been arrested and sentenced to be banished....
"...and here I copy the following description of what occurred as given by Mrs. Flora Stevens, as she stood at the grave of Josephine Anderson and published in the Kansas City Post,under date of May2,1912.
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"I disapprove of respecting a man who has been called one of the psychopathic killers in America...and ordered/participated in the burning, looting and killing of the citizens of Lawrence Kansas"
So, Marymog, you have simply regurgitated the common politically correct and distorted view of Quantrill. First of all I want to address the cause for the burning, killing, and looting of Lawrence.
Taken from (Three Years With Quantrill, A True Story Told by His Scout John McCorkle, O.S Barton, Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1992, p.119-123)
"In September [August], 1863, Captain Bill Anderson and his company joined us. At this time, the outrages committed by the Federal troops,which consisted mostly of Home Guards and Kansas Redlegs and Jayhawkers, beggars description. At this late day,it seems impossible that human beings could have been guilty of such merciless outrages as these men committed. Among the leaders of these bands were Jennison, Jim Lane and a Captain Mead and I will only attempt to give a few of their acts as an illustration of their brutality and to further impress upon the minds of my readers why we acted as we did.
"Captain Mead, with his band went to the home of Mrs. Carter, a widow seventy years of age, and compelled her,at the hour of 12 o'clock at night to ride fourteen miles horseback, facing a bitter snowstorm, to the town of Independence, where she was lodged in jail for feeding rebel soldiers, her two boys being in the Confederate Army.
"....My sister, Mrs. Charity Kerr and my sister-in-law, Mrs.Nannie McCorkle,...went to Kansas City in a wagon...with a load of wheat to exchange it for flour....Anderson Cowgill...reported to the authorities that these two women were rebels and were buying flour to feed the bushwhackers. They were immediately arrested and placed in jail with some other girls, who had been arrested and sentenced to be banished....
"...and here I copy the following description of what occurred as given by Mrs. Flora Stevens, as she stood at the grave of Josephine Anderson and published in the Kansas City Post,under date of May2,1912.
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