There have been several additional threads on the subject by using the search feature. Member Patrick H has quite a bit of insight you would likely find very interesting.
Their have been a few books about Quantrill over the years. I own two that I think are pretty good"The devil knows how to rid the true story of Quantrill by Leslie. Jesse James the last rebel of the Civil War by T.J. Stiles has a lot of detail. Quantrill is an interesting character he enjoyed a lot of success but in the end Union COIN strategy did work . Its kind of an irony but the man who brought Quantrill to justice was himself a lovable psychopathic killer Edwin Terril.
I wonder what it was like to have been one of Quantrill's students back when he was a school teacher in Ohio.
I guess we will never know. Quantrill was not a teacher for to long on the other hand the being a teacher back then did not pay well. The most money he made has far has I know was when he was civilian teamster bring supplies to the US Army in Utah during the Mormon conflict.I wonder what it was like to have been one of Quantrill's students back when he was a school teacher in Ohio.
No it just a delicious irony in this particular case.
You would think so after all the anti-Sherman and Butler threads we have had over the years. of course we should not neglect our dear friend John Brown.
What is not to like about "Spoons?"
OOOH, scary...I guess we are in sync...
Spoons may of arguably been less then honest in enforcing the blockade per the book"Strangling the Confederacy". My friend Harvery Johnson claims that he allowed weapons and food to freely flow from Ft.Monroe where Butler was briefly in charge of to Richmond but then he would not confirm said information. Butler was has I recall not such a good combat leader but did seem to do a fine job occuping New Orleans and raising USCT units. Plus the ladies of the South loved him.
Me too...
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