Ride Around Missouri by Sean McLachlan

Author:Sean McLachlan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Ride Around Missouri
ISBN: 9781849088909
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Published: 2011-09-27T16:00:00+00:00

Quantrill’s raid on Lawrence, which killed 200 mostly unarmed men and boys and left the town in flames, started a new chapter in the Trans-Mississippi theater. The Union command responded by evicting the majority of civilians from the Missouri border counties to keep them from supporting guerrillas, and this led to even more violent reprisals from the bushwhackers. While considered a sideshow of the war, Missouri suffered more than most states. (LoC)

Back at the scene of the carnage, Quantrill and his men found many of their victims had been carrying whiskey and they threw themselves a big party. Quantrill was exultant. He mistook the fine but blood-spattered uniform of a lieutenant-colonel for that of Blunt and crowed drunkenly, “By god, Shelby could not whip Blunt. Neither could Marmaduke. But I whipped him!” Other guerrillas acted in a similar fashion. One danced a jig on a wounded soldier who managed to play possum and eventually escaped to tell the tale. Others peppered wounded men with bullets. One guerrilla, 15-year-old Riley Crawford, thought he’d make a joke by going up to what he assumed was a corpse, smacked the body with a cavalry saber, and shouted “Get up, you Federal son of a bitch!” Riley gaped as the man actually did get up. He’d been playing dead like some of the others and thought he’d been spotted. Riley whipped out a revolver and shot him down.

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