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thank you

official newspaper files of the early

West record many stories of famous and

notorious characters of that period

among them quantrell's Raiders a phrase

that struck Terror to the hearts of

Kansas and Missouri families during the

Civil War years of

1860-1865. it meant Quantrell polished

but depraved ex-school teacher who led

his bloodthirsty horde to five Reckless

ferocious years of murder and pillage

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Union Troopers

thanks for the bed and board Mr Wilson

it's a pleasure meeting a union

sympathizer in Missouri it's a pleasure

to serve you sir if you see Quantrell or

any of these Cutthroat gorillas tell

them you better watch out General Lanes

boys are on his tail

good day sir

backup Yankees

Bushwackers

dirty secession issue informed on us

would you mind telling us who we have

the pleasure of meeting not at all

Charles Quantrell

the matter

that name scare you we've heard things

as prisoners were entitled to certain

rights

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surrendering peacefully we

Wilson yeah sure get him out of here are

you sure you get their boots and their

guns they won't need them anymore

and uh Wilson we're taking over your

ranch's headquarters you can have it and

welcome sir anything it'll help beat

them no good Lowdown no kind of gases

we picture headquarters stand over there

move the rest of troops up immediately

yes sir

found this one spying on us from the

woods Captain get down

who are you what are you doing around

here come on tell me the truth all right

sir I'm this is John Clements I'm trying

to find my husband

Yankees burned a home last week and I

got nowhere to go

I've got to find them I've just got to

find

why are you dress like a boy like

I thought it would be safer among the

federal yes

you're in Southern Country ma'am

where a gentlewoman is always safe

free to go my compliments thank you

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you believe it captain no a white tunnel

loose what would you have done Todd well

I would well you listen we don't take

prisoners we don't war on women what

else is there to do

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railroad detective now serving with the

Union Army as a spy division

headquarters had sent me down here

because as a railroad man I knew the

country

I was told to report to Colonel Marshall

in charge of intelligence for the Border

command for further instructions

he wasn't in when I arrived but I didn't

have long to wait

Matt Clark that's right sir Colonel

Marshall

sit down thank you

you know why you're here in general sir

not specifically we want some

information concerning Quantrell the

Guerrilla leader you've heard of him I

imagine there is the man in the west who

hasn't sir he's a border butcher who

never takes prisoners that's your man if

you care to change your mind of course

there's still time I didn't expect a

better roses Colonel of course there's a

few questions

first do I work alone no we have

definite ideas on that you'll work with

a woman who's just come from Missouri a

woman you'll be a young couple from

Missouri whose home has been burned by

the jayhawkers you want revenge you will

meet Montreal personally wow

I said there's still time to change your

mind I said wow Colonel I didn't say no

the Frankie Adams and Matt Clark

ah oh am I glad to see you on that I

take it you two have met before oh we've

worked together for years you knew about

this all the time Colonel I say there's

very little we don't know about the

people we deal with friend or enemy I've

been telling Matt the object of the

mission

exciting isn't it I should have known

you'd be the lady in the case sit down

both of you uh Frankie met Quantrell

last week he's holed up across the line

at the Wilson Ranch he's using the Civil

War as an excuse to write his personal

history and blood a little Napoleon with

visions of Empire

ing something big something that will

give him the military Glory he craves

it might mean an invasion of Kansas an

attack on one of our towns might even

mean this very post

that's where you two come in that's your

job get me the information and then I

can demand and get the man I need

here I'll uh I'll give you what details

I can

across the Confederate lines in the

Missouri

we're both aware that as spies we were

on our own and could expect no help from

Colonel Marshall or anybody else

up to now our traveling had been done at

night but nearing quantrell's camp we

came out into the open

two days we hadn't met a living Soul the

area had been abandoned since 1854

because of the constant raiding back and

forth across the border how much farther

we're almost to the farm now

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see what's in the packs get off your

horses

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I was wondering when this was going to

happen just don't be nervous that's all

don't even remind me of it

where are you going no place just moving

along for you if your Yankees are union

sympathizers

start making your peace with the Lord

I'm Bill Anderson

Bloody Bill

some folks call me that

well I'm sure proud to know you Bill my

name is John clementson this is my

missus wandering around these parts can

be Mighty dangerous clips

or maybe you ain't heard I heard Charlie

Quantrell was looking for fighting man

that's what I heard

sure would like to join up

follow me

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get out of here just in time

I told this secretary how I felt about

these stupid rules of War he asked me

what I'd do I told him I'd waste such a

Wars to make surrender impossible

I'd cover the armies of the union with

blood I would invade I would exterminate

and I would keep right on killing until

I was the Victor complete and

unquestioned we're fighting a holy war

of Vengeance right now sitting over

there in Lawrence is Jim Lane and with

him a hundred more mad dog Yankees just

like him

they're the man who burned your ranches

who insulted your mothers and your

sisters

standard Ascension

have your men check their guns in their

saddles

they'll hit Lawrence tonight we'll wipe

it off the face of the Earth yes sir

we'll be ready at sundown

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well

I picked up a man on the way in Charlie

oh legendary recruit huh

where is he I'll get him

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his name is Clements

Anderson says you want to sign up that's

right sir

well

who's the girl my wife sir

you're leaving a pretty girl like her at

home

the South needs every man it can get you

I want to fight

all right you'll do

Anderson see that he draws his

provisions and gets his ammunition he'll

ride with us tonight come on Clements

Mr Minimus

I want to talk with your wife

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it's all right honey go on

all right

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that is what you plan on doing with your

husband away fighting a war

oh I can nurse or I can smuggle my

munition from Kansas City just like the

other woman

mighty pretty to be wasting on dangerous

work like that these are cruel times

everybody has to take a chance woman is

pretty as you should make or take her

own chances don't talk to me like that I

don't like it hey wait a minute

hey you're that little Spitfire I was

talking to you last week aren't you

I told you

I was looking for my husband

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and by him

loyal little kitten aren't you

I wonder

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how long have you been married

three years

three years married to a clot of a

farmer hadn't even enough to buy you a

gingham dresser up bonnet

you deserve better than that

I love him

that's worth more to me than a dress

is it worth more than silk guns trunks

full of them more than you can wear in

an entire year

is it worth more than three hot meals a

day more than a feather bed to spend

your nights resting on not even you have

that much these days but I will have we

all will

after Lawrence we'll have luxury like we

had it before

Lawrence

I'm a big man on the border not that big

what do you think of gathering all these

men together for to raid a Whistle Stop

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after tonight my name will be spoken of

with respect throughout the entire South

you ride along with me to Lawrence

tonight and I'll show you

Lawrence tonight

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you know something

I just might change my mind

I just might do that little thing

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I trust Mrs Clinton I sincerely trust

this is some kind of a joke from an

extremely poor taste no joke quantrail

turn around you fire That Thing Once the

whole cap will come around him but he

wants your way of getting you though

I feel just obliged by stepping over

there maybe we'll both have a chance

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I got the information first Quantrell I

had the pistol with him the Yankee spies

hold them

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they won the Yankee troops but too late

too late

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Matt yeah cointreau's reading Lawrence

tonight tonight it's what he said well

at least it's no time to get to Colonel

Marshall we'll have to ride and launch

yourself and warn the townspeople

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Lawrence an hour after midnight as we

rode down the street the town was asleep

and is still as death

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watch Trails coming man get your guns

Hot Trails coming

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get the women and children in the

courthouse all right Matt

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hurry ladies please hurry

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just a bunch of farmers charge

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to the ground yes sir

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began to be a losing Fight 2

000 citizens mostly women children and

untrained men

against 300 hardened Ruffians of the

Border

set it against the barricades

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one Trail had time to murder Loot and

burn

he wrote his name that night but Kansas

history with Fire and Blood

he achieved his inhuman and evil

ambition and then as suddenly as he came

he has suddenly went away

chaos and fascism

thousand broken hearts

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Frank and I were amongst the lucky ones

that survived that night

Montreal's Raiders were pursued in

sections of his band were cut off and

destroyed

I was personally detailed by Colonel

Marshall to take as many men as I needed

and pursue Quantrill himself until I

killed or captured him

during the months we spent tracking him

down he was declared An Outlaw by the

Confederate Army the very forces he had

been pretending to serve

in 1865 we got word that he was down in

Kentucky at wakefield's Ranch not far

from Louisville

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quantrell's in that Barn we didn't want

to get caught like sitting ducks this

mountain take cover

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we must have been seen as he rode up or

as it turned out

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we can't do any good in here

would you like a robita

we'll cut through somehow boys we'll cut

through

don't surrender why you still have a

chance

get on your horses we'll run for it

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I'll say one thing for Quantrell as long

as he could move he never quit I'll get

you to doctor soon as possible never

mind

I know what it's like to die

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I've always wanted to kill him I've

killed many men

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I regret nothing not even this

she died

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no Quantrell the Mad Dog of the Border

wasn't dead yet but he was through the

towns of Kansas and Missouri would never

again be pillaged nor would his victims

ever again hear that terrible Rebel Yell

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about a month later Frankie and I were

summoned to the colonos headquarters

good afternoon Colonel hello Frankie

Matt howdy Colonel you said for us huh

yes I did I want to thank you both for a

job well done

here's something that might interest you

it's a telegram from Louisville Kentucky

William Clark Quantrill born in Canal

Dover Ohio but known in Missouri's

Charlie Quantrell

you see Frankie lied to people said he'd

come from Maryland to make them think he

was a southerner even changed his name

to Charlie Quantrell

died here

at the hospital of the military prison

the sixth day of June 1865 signed W.L

Sloan

I guess it's the end of the Border

Raiders more than that Frankie it looks

like the end of this terrible War it

can't last much longer but by the way

I've arranged with Central Intelligence

for a two weeks leave of absence for

both of you oh thanks Colonel well get

out of here before somebody changes his

mind last one out is a no good load down

no count Yankee

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