The Devil Knows How To Ride
Brilliantly weaving together eyewitness accounts, letters, memories, newspaper articles, and military reports into a riveting narrative, this definitive biography reveals the personality of William Clarke Quantrill (18371865) and the events that transformed a quiet Ohio schoolteacher from a staunchly Unionist family into a virulent pro-slavery Confederate soldier and the most feared and despised guerrilla chieftain of the Civil War. This groundbreaking work includes the most accurate account...
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"Brilliantly weaving together eyewitness accounts, letters, memories, newspaper articles, and military reports into a riveting narrative, this definitive biography reveals the personality of William Cl" New Yorker [Leslie] sifts through the legends about one of the most notorious of the guerilla fighters who turned western Missouri and eastern Kansas in the 1860s into something like Bosnia in the 1990s.
\ New Yorker[Leslie] sifts through the legends about one of the most notorious of the guerilla fighters who turned western Missouri and eastern Kansas in the 1860s into something like Bosnia in the 1990s.\ \ \ \ \ BooknewsReveals the events which transformed a quiet schoolteacher from a Union family into a virulent pro-slavery Confederate soldier and a guerilla chieftain of the Civil War. Details the 1863 Lawrence Massacre, when Quantrill and 450 raiders executed 200 unarmed men, and describes the postwar outlaw careers of those who rode with Quantrill. This is an unabridged republication of the edition first published in New York by Random House, Inc., in 1996. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.\ \
