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"Kansas should be laid misuse at once." - William Clarke Quantrill "No more terrifying object ever before emerged down a streets than a mounted guerrilla outrageous for blood vessels, the bridle-reins between his pearly whites or higher the saddle-horn, the horses working recklessly, the rider yelling like a Comanche, his long unkempt hair traveling wildly beyond the brim of his extensive head wear, and firing both to the right and kept with deadly accuracy and reliability. Whenever a town was filled up with such men bent on fatality, terror ensued, reason and view fled, and hell yawned." - William Elsey Connelley, author of Quantrill and the Boundary Wars The Civil Warfare is best kept in mind for the top battles and the legendary generals who fought on both edges, like Robert E. Lee facing off against Ulysses S. Grant in 1864. In kind, the Eastern theatre has always attracted more interest and attention than the Western world. However, while substantial armies marched around the country fighting each other, there were other small guerrilla categories that involved in unusual warfare on the margins, and among these partisan bushwhackers, none of them are as infamous as William Quantrill and Quantrill's Raiders. Quantrill's Raiders managed along the border between Missouri and Kansas, which had been the scene of partisan fighting with each other over a decade earlier through the issue over whether Kansas and Nebraska would enter the Union as free state governments or slave state governments. In "Bleeding Kansas", zealous pro-slavery and anti-slavery pushes fought each other, especially John Brown, and the spot became a breeding ground for folks like Quantrill who shifted right back into similar fighting with each other after the Civil War began.
