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When one thinks of William Quantrill, Bloody Bill Anderson, and men like the James and Younger Brothers, they may automatically think of Missouri and Kansas. But Quantrill's Raiders are a fascinating part of Grayson County and North Texas history as well. This book will explore their activities in North Texas, both during, and after the Civil War. This writer's purpose is not to overtly try to take one side over the other, concerning the morality of that war, or those who fought in it. Many original sources will be presented from the time of the war and shortly afterward explaining the times. Both sides will be presented and the humanity of the people involved will be taken into consideration.CONTENTS:Section One - Quantrill's Raiders in North TexasIntroduction Pg 7-10A short introduction and overview of Quantrill's Raiders in North Texas Pages 11 - 20Quantrill's 1861 Trip to North Texas and Grayson County Pg 21-25Quantrill's Raiders in 1862 Pg 25-28Quantrill In 1863 -1864 Pg 29-33Collapse Of Union Jail In Kansas City Pg 34-38Quantrill's Trip to Texas in 1863 In "Noted Guerrillas, or the Warfare of the Border" Pg 38-45Quantrill's Raiders In Grayson County Texas, Good Guys or Bad? Pg 46-54 Tales of a Guerrilla Warrior A defense of Quantrill's men from one of them himself, William H. Gregg Quantrill's Raiders Popularity in North Texas Pg 55-64 Potts Family Gives Quantrill a Thumbs UPQuantrill's Raiders Not A Favorite of Their Commander GEN. McCullochAn Account of the Baxter Springs Massacre from William Gregg Pg 65-67Quantrill's Raiders North of Pottsboro in Fall 1863 Pg 68-81Brogdon Springs, Spout Springs and the Hanging Tree Quantrill Camped at the Springs Description of Quantrill's Camp Lookout THE CIVIL WAR BATTLE THAT HISTORY FORGOT -THE BATTLE FOR TEXAS - THE BATTLE ON THE RED RIVER Pg 82-104General Blunt vs. Quantrill; and Quantrill in Texas Preston Bend's Paul Revere Was a Lady - Sophia Coffee Butts Porter Union General Blunt Continues to Plot Revenge Against Quantrill General Blunt Inserts Spies in Quantrill's Raiders in Texas as Would-Be Assassins Historic Brogdon Cemetery, Civil War Burial Ground Quantrill's Raiders In Sherman Pg 105-126Quantrill's Raiders March from the Indian Territory to Georgetown and Sherman Texas in the Fall and Winter of 1863-64. by O. S. BartonQuantrill Faces His Toughest Challenge - The Women Back Home Quantrill's Raiders Ride Rough Shod In (And Over) Sherman Quantrill's Golden Treasure in Sherman Sherman Merchant (Hall) Plays Host to QuantrillSherman as it Appeared to Quantrill's Men in the 1860sThe Breakup of Quantrill's Raiders Pg 127-185Bill Anderson's Sherman Romance Helps Break up the BandThe Killing of Major Butts of Preston Bend Disintegration of Quantrill's Raiders Demoralization of the Band - Arrest and Escape of Quantrill Jernigan's Thicket And the brush men - McCulloch's and Quantrill's Feud Quantrill's Raiders in Kentucky TownAn Account of The Group's Break -up - William H. Gregg - A Little Dab of History Remembrances of Quantrill's Raiders in North Texas by his MenThe Guerrillas Trips to North Texas and Sherman in Fall 1864 - 1866 by John Edwards and Capt. Harrison Trow William Quantrill, Civil War Horse Whisperer?The Death of Old Charley, Harbinger of Quantrill's Death?Paris, Texas Man Was at the Bedside of Quantrill When He DiedSection Two: Sketches of Quantrill's Raiders Pg 186-369 "Bloody Bill" William T. Anderson Pg 187-202 James Monroe "Jim" Anderson Pg 202-203 Capt Francis Marion "Dave" Poole Pg 204-205 Jesse Woodson James Pg 206-244 Alexander Franklin "Frank" James Pg 245-271 Cole, Bob John & Jim Younger Pg 271-294 Levi Boone "Lee" McMurtry Pg 295-305 Allen Parmer Pg 306-320 James "Jim Crow" Chiles Pg 321-323 Jim Cummins Pg 324-329 The Maupin Brothers Isaiah Kimberlin Francis Marion "Tuck" Hill Myra Maybelle Shirley "Belle" Starr
In the fall of 1863, William Clarke Quantrill, the Missouri bushwhacker, took about three hundred of his followers across Indian Territory to Sherman, Texas. In the Lone Star State, the bushwhackers made camp at Mineral Creek. Henry McCulloch, the Confederate commander of the District of Northeast Texas, tried to find a use for the pseudo-rebels, but they failed in rounding up deserters, chasing Indians, and destroying moonshiners. They did manage to ravage the city of Sherman, getting drunk and shooting the tassels off the hat of Grayson County's leading lady, Sophia Butts. They also robbed and killed citizens, including Sophia's husband. Then they began to fight among themselves until Quantrill's command splintered. Texas seemed little changed in the guerrillas' wake, but the atrocities they committed after returning north show that their time near Sherman changed them decisively.
Details Quantrill's forays into North Texas during the Civil War.
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Most histories of Civil War Texas—some starring the fabled Hood’s Brigade, Terry’s Texas Rangers, or one or another military figure—depict the Lone Star State as having joined the Confederacy as a matter of course and as having later emerged from the war relatively unscathed. Yet as the contributors to this volume amply demonstrate, the often neglected stories of Texas Unionists and dissenters paint a far more complicated picture. Ranging in time from the late 1850s to the end of Reconstruction, Lone Star Unionism, Dissent, and Resistance restores a missing layer of complexity to the history of Civil War Texas. The authors—all noted scholars of Texas and Civil War history—show that slaves, freedmen and freedwomen, Tejanos, German immigrants, and white women all took part in the struggle, even though some never found themselves on a battlefield. Their stories depict the Civil War as a conflict not only between North and South but also between neighbors, friends, and family members. By framing their stories in the analytical context of the “long Civil War,” Lone Star Unionism, Dissent, and Resistance reveals how friends and neighbors became enemies and how the resulting violence, often at the hands of secessionists, crossed racial and ethnic lines. The chapters also show how ex-Confederates and their descendants, as well as former slaves, sought to give historical meaning to their experiences and find their place as citizens of the newly re-formed nation. Concluding with an account of the origins of Juneteenth—the nationally celebrated holiday marking June 19, 1865, when emancipation was announced in Texas—Lone Star Unionism, Dissent, and Resistance challenges the collective historical memory of Civil War Texas and its place in both the Confederacy and the United States. It provides material for a fresh narrative, one including people on the margins of history and dispelling the myth of a monolithically Confederate Texas.
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