
Three Years with Quantrill
A True Story
University of Oklahoma Press
Published on 15. February 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-0-8061-3056-9 (ISBN)
Description
This famous memoir by John McCorkle, reissued for the first time, is the best published account by a scout who ""rode with Quantrill."" John McCorkle was a young Missouri farmer of Southern sympathies. After serving briefly in the pro-Confederate Missouri State Guard, he became a prominent member of William Clarke Quantrill's infamous guerrillas, who took advantage of the turmoil in the Missouri-Kansas borderland to prey on pro-Union people.McCorkle displayed an unflinchingly violent nature while he participated in raids and engagements including the massacres at Lawrence and Baxter Springs, Kansas, and Centralia, Missouri. In 1865 he followed Quantrill into Kentucky, where the notorious leader was killed and his followers, McCorkle among them, surrendered and were paroled by Union authorities. Early in this century, having returned to farming, McCorkle told his remarkable Civil War experiences to O.S. Barton, a lawyer, who wrote this book, first published in 1914.
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oklahoma
United States
Illustrations
7 black & white illustrations, 1 map
Dimensions
Height: 190 mm
Width: 121 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
224 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8061-3056-9 (9780806130569)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Albert Castel (1928-2014), was a Civil War historian and author of Decision in the West: The Atlanta Campaign of 1864.