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"In all wars there will always be, and always is a course of men chosen as guerillas, but it could be said that the Missouri guerillas are definitely more known than those of any battle in any country for a long time. Their deeds of daring, their miraculous escapes, and the physical sufferings that they endured are almost beyond belief." (John McCorkle, one of Quantrill's Raiders) The Civil Warfare is best appreciated for the best battles and the legendary generals who fought on both sides, like Robert E. Lee facing off against Ulysses S. Grant in 1864. In kind, the Eastern theater has always drawn more interest and attention than the Western world. However, while considerable armies marched around the united states fighting one another, there have been other small guerrilla communities that employed in abnormal warfare on the margins, and among these partisan bushwhackers, none of them is really as infamous as William Quantrill and Quantrill's Raiders. Quantrill's Raiders managed along the border between Missouri and Kansas, which have been the world of partisan fighting with each other over ten years earlier during the controversy over whether Kansas and Nebraska would enter into the Union as free states or slave states. In "Bloody Kansas", zealous proslavery and antislavery pushes fought one another, most notably John Dark brown, and the region became a breeding ground for folks like Quantrill, who shifted right back into similar fighting with each other after the Civil War started. Rather than focus on military infrastructure or enemy military, the bushwhackers rode in smaller volumes and targeted civilians on the other side of the issue, making legends out of men like Bloody Expenses Anderson and John Mosby.
